TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hyman,Wendy Beth
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - The automaton in English Renaissance literature
T2  - Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
AV  - PR428.T43 H95 2011eb
U1  - 820.9/356 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Burlington, Vt.
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - English literature
KW  - Early modern, 1500-1700
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literature and technology
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Motion in literature
KW  - Machinery in literature
KW  - Supernatural in literature
KW  - Magic in literature
KW  - Motion
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10481751
ER  -