The automaton in English Renaissance literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hyman, Wendy Beth
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2011]
Series:	Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity.
Subjects:	English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism. Literature and technology > England > History > 16th century. Literature and technology > England > History > 17th century. Motion in literature. Machinery in literature. Supernatural in literature. Magic in literature. Motion > Philosophy.

Table of 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.