Romantic automata: exhibitions, figures, organisms
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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Demson, Michael (HerausgeberIn), Clason, Christopher R. ca. 20./21. Jh (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Bucknell University Press [2020]
Schriftenreihe:Transits
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Abstract:"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."
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 223-237
Umfang:viii, 253 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9781684481767
9781684481774