Romantic Automata : Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms /

For most of the eighteenth century, automata were deemed a celebration of human ingenuity, feats of science and reason. Among the Romantics, however, they prompted a contradictory apprehension about mechanization and contrivance: such science and engineering threatened the spiritual nature of life,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Burwick, Frederick (Contribuidor), Clason, Christopher R. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Demson, Michael (Contribuidor, Editor ), Engelstein, Stefani (Contribuidor), Erickson, Peter (Contribuidor), Freeman, Kathryn S., Freeman, Kathryn (Contribuidor), Goss, Erin M. (Contribuidor), Hanson, Lenora (Contribuidor), Nielsen, Wendy C. (Contribuidor), Shams, Ashley (Contribuidor), Singer, Kate (Contribuidor), Weiler, Christina M. (Contribuidor), Weiler, Christina Maria
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2020]
Colección:Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
Temas:
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature and technology > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Literature and technology > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Robots in literature.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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Sumario:For most of the eighteenth century, automata were deemed a celebration of human ingenuity, feats of science and reason. Among the Romantics, however, they prompted a contradictory apprehension about mechanization and contrivance: such science and engineering threatened the spiritual nature of life, the source of compassion in human society. A deep dread of puppets and the machinery that propels them consequently surfaced in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature. Romantic Automata is a collection of essays examining the rise of this cultural suspicion of mechanical imitations of life. Recent scholarship in post-humanism, post-colonialism, disability studies, post-modern feminism, eco-criticism, and radical Orientalism has significantly affected the critical discourse on this topic. In engaging with the work and thought of Coleridge, Poe, Hoffmann, Mary Shelley, and other Romantic luminaries, the contributors to this collection open new methodological approaches to understanding human interaction with technology that strives to simulate, supplement, or supplant organic life. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (264 p.) : 9 B-W illustrations, 12 color illustrations
ISBN:9781684481804
9783110704716
9783110704518
9783110704747
9783110704532
9783110690330
Acceso:restricted access

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