• Media type: Book
  • Title: The automaton in English Renaissance literature
  • Contains: 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.
  • Contributor: Hyman, Wendy Beth [Hrsg.]
  • imprint: Burlington, VT [u.a.]: Ashgate, 2011
  • Published in: Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
  • Extent: X, 209 S.; ill; 24 cm
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780754668657; 0754668657
  • RVK notation: HI 1161 : Einzelne Stoffe, Motive und Embleme
    ZG 8640 : Beziehungen zu anderen Gebieten
  • Keywords: Englisch > Literatur > Automat > Geschichte 1500-1700
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references. - 10stellige ISBN aus Fremddaten

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