Romantic automata exhibits, figures, organisms /

"A deep dread of puppets and the machinery that propels them surfaced in Romantic literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century; Romantic Automata is a collection of essays examining the rise of cultural suspicion of all imitations of homo sapiens and similar machinery, as witn...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Demson, Michael (Editor), Clason, Christopher R. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, 2020.
Series:Transits: Literature, Thought and Culture 1650-1850 Ser.
Subjects:
1700-1899
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Robots in literature.
Literature and technology > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Literature and technology > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et technologie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature et technologie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Romantisme > Grande-Bretagne.
English literature
Literature and technology
Robots in literature
Romanticism
Automat > Motiv
Literatur
Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE: Exhibitions
  • 1 The Uncanny Valley
  • 2 The (Re-)Winding of Hoffmann's Automata
  • 3 Uncanny Prosthetics
  • PART TWO: Figures
  • 4 Romantic Tales of Pseudo-Automata
  • 5 Rattled Women, Shaken Toys
  • 6 Automatic for All
  • 7 "A little earthly idol to contract your ideas"
  • PART THREE: Organisms
  • 8 Schelling's Uncanny Organism
  • 9 "It . . . lives by dying"
  • 10 The Metaphysical Machinery of Mining in Novalis's Works
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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