Romantic Automata - Exhibits, Figures, and Organisms (Hardcover)

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 witnessed in the literature and arts of the time. 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. 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. The essays in this collection open new methodological approaches to understanding human interaction with technology that strives to simulate or to supplement organic life.

General

Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
Release date:	April 2020
Editors:	Michael Demson • Christopher R. Clason
Contributors:	Frederick Burwick • Ashley Shams • Peter Erickson • Wendy C. Nielsen • Erin M. Goss • Kate Singer • Kathryn S. Freeman • Stefani Engelstein
Dimensions:	235 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-1-68448-177-4
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > Engineering: general Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Professional & Technical > Electronics & communications engineering > Electronics engineering > Automatic control engineering > Robotics
LSN:	1-68448-177-5
Barcode:	9781684481774

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