The automaton in English Renaissance literature

Author(s)

• Hyman, Wendy Beth

Bibliographic Information

The automaton in English Renaissance literature

Wendy Beth Hyman

（Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity）

Ashgate, c2011

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• 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

Details

• NCID: BB0795761X
• ISBN:
  • 9780754668657
• LCCN: 2010052526
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Farnham, Surrey
• Pages/Volumes: x, 209 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR428.T43
  • DC22 : 820.9/356
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Literature and technology -- England -- History -- 16th century
  • LCSH : Literature and technology -- England -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Motion in literature
  • LCSH : Machinery in literature
  • LCSH : Supernatural in literature
  • LCSH : Magic in literature
  • LCSH : Motion -- Philosophy
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA69250439