Romantic Automata Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms |
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| Editor:
| Demson, Michael
Clason, Christopher R. |
| Contribution by:
| Burwick, Frederick
Shams, Ashley
Erickson, Peter
Nielsen, Wendy C.
Goss, Erin M.
Singer, Kate
Freeman, Kathryn S.
Engelstein, Stefani
Hanson, Lenora
Weiler, Christina Maria |
| Series title: | Transits: Literature, Thought and Culture, 1650-1850 Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-68448-176-7 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2020 |
| Publisher: | Bucknell University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $36.95USD $39.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.