Copying machines : taking notes for the automaton /
In readings of texts by Lafayette, Molire, Laclos, and La Bruyreand in a chapter on the eighteenth-century inventor of automatons, Jacques VaucansonCatherine Liu provides a fascinating account of ways in which the automaton and the preindustrial machine haunt the imagination of ancien rgime France a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2000.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Doing it like a machine
- 2. "What's the difference?"
- 3. The Princess of Cléves makes a faux pas
- ch. 4. Getting ahead with machines? : the cases of Jacques Vaucanson and Thérèse des Hayes
- 5. Don Juan breaks all his promises but manages to keep one appointment (with history)
- 6. De Man on Rousseau : the reading machine
- 7. Friends : dangerous liaisons.