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Romantic Automata - Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms (Paperback)
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Romantic Automata - Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms (Paperback)
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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.Â
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