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The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature

By Wendy Beth Hyman, Mary Thomas Crane, Henry S. Turner
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By Wendy Beth Hyman, Mary Thomas Crane, Henry S. Turner
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The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature features original essays exploring the automaton-from animated statue to anthropomorphized machine-in the poetry, prose, and drama of England in the 16th and 17th centuries. Addressing the history and significance of the living machine in early modern literature, the collection places literary automata of the period within their larger aesthetic, historical, philosophical, and scientific contexts.

While no single theory or perspective conscribe...

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