Androids and intelligent networks in early modern literature and culture : artificial slaves / / Kevin LaGrandeur.
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ;
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 207 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Artificial slaves: intelligent tools/ rebellious agents
- Real human automata from the pre-empirical era
- Whole bodies: alchemy, cabala, and the embodiment of force
- Body parts: talking brass heads, dangerous knowledge, and Robert Greene's plays
- Prospero's ethereal prosthesis
- Doctor Faustus: losing control of the servant network
- Points of contact between artificial servants of yesterday and today.