The automaton in English Renaissance literature, Wendy Beth Hyman

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The automaton in English Renaissance literature, Wendy Beth Hyman

Statement of responsibility

Wendy Beth Hyman

Instantiates

• The automaton in English Renaissance literature

Publication

• Farnham, Ashgate, 2011

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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volume

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• nc

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rdacarrier

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent

Contents

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

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ocn694616480

Dimensions

25 cm.

Extent

x, 209 p.

Isbn

9780754668657

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2010052526

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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ill.

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b2602362