The Hyman, Wendy Beth. creator ebrary, Inc text Electronic books. vtu Burlington, Vt Ashgate 2011 monographic eng

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x, 209 p. : ill. Introduction / Wendy Beth Hyman -- Descartes avec Milton: the automata in the garden / Scott Maisano -- "To me comes a creature": recognition, agency, and the properties of character in Shakespeare's The winter's tale / Justin Barnes Kolb -- Antique myth, early modern mechanism: the secret history of Spenser's Iron man / Lynsey McCulloch -- Orpheus and the poetic animation of the natural world / Leah Knight -- The mechanical saint: early modern devotion and the language of automation / Brooke Conti -- Arrow, acrobat, and phoenix: on sense and motion in English civic pageantry / Michael Witmore -- "More than art": clockwork automata, the extemporizing actor, and the brazen head in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay / Todd Andrew Borlik -- "Mathematical experiments of long silver pipes": the early modern figure of the mechanical bird / Wendy Beth Hyman -- Desire, nature, and automata in The bower of bliss / Nick Davis. Wendy Beth Hyman. Includes index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. e-uk-en English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism Literature and technology England History 16th century Literature and technology England History 17th century Motion in literature Machinery in literature Supernatural in literature Magic in literature Motion Philosophy PR428.T43 H95 2011eb 820.9/356 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10481751 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10481751 CaPaEBR 101222 ebr10481751