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02733aam a2200421 i 4500 001 A92F2264A55F11EAA027EF1497128E48 003 SILO 005 20200603010033 008 190708s2020 paua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019028588 020 $a 1684481775 020 $a 9781684481774 020 $a 1684481767 020 $a 9781684481767 035 $a (OCoLC)1112902094 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR457 R626 2020 245 00 $a Romantic automata : $b exhibitions, figures, organisms / $c edited by Michael Demson and Christopher R. Clason. 264 1 $a Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : $b Bucknell University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a viii, 253 pages : $b illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a English literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English literature $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Robots in literature. 650 0 $a Literature and technology $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Literature and technology $z Great Britain $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Romanticism $z Great Britain. 700 1 $a Demson, Michael, $e editor. 700 1 $a Clason, Christopher R., $e editor. 830 0 $a Transits (Bucknell University) 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230706014429.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A92F2264A55F11EAA027EF1497128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search