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100 1 a| Hyman, Wendy Beth.=| ^A1117890;

245 14 a| The automaton in English Renaissance literature /c| Wendy Beth Hyman.;

300 a| x, 209 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 25 cm.;

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490 1 a| Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

650 0 a| English literaturey| Early modern, 1500-1700x| History and criticism.=| ^A989565;

650 0 a| Motion in literature.=| ^A601178;

650 0 a| Machinery in literature.=| ^A156913;

650 0 a| Supernatural in literature.=| ^A40048;

650 0 a| Magic in literature.=| ^A88749;

650 0 a| Motionx| Philosophy.=| ^A936;

830 0 a| Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity.=| ^A585867;

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The automaton in English Renaissance literature / Wendy Beth Hyman.

Author/creator	Hyman, Wendy Beth
Format	Book
Publication Info	Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2011.
Description	x, 209 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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.

Series	Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity. ^A585867
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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2010052526
ISBN	9780754668657 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN	0754668657 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780754695196 (ebook)
ISBN	0754695190 (ebook)

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