Romantic Automata : : Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms / / ed. by Michael Demson, Christopher R. Clason.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• MitwirkendeR: Burwick, Frederick,; Clason, Christopher R.,; Demson, Michael,; Engelstein, Stefani,; Erickson, Peter,; Freeman, Kathryn,; Goss, Erin M.,; Hanson, Lenora,; Nielsen, Wendy C.,; Shams, Ashley,; Singer, Kate,; Weiler, Christina M.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Burwick, Frederick.; Engelstein, Stefani.; Erickson, Peter.; Freeman, Kathryn S.; Goss, Erin M.; Hanson, Lenora.; Nielsen, Wendy C.; Shams, Ashley.; Singer, Kate.; Weiler, Christina Maria.
• HerausgeberIn: Clason, Christopher R.,; Demson, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 9 B-W illustrations, 12 color illustrations

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,...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Illustrations
• Introduction
• PART ONE: Exhibitions
• 1 The Uncanny Valley
• 2 The (Re-)Winding of Hoffmann’s Automata
• 3 Uncanny Prosthetics
• PART TWO: Figures
• 4 Romantic Tales of Pseudo-Automata
• 5 Rattled Women, Shaken Toys
• 6 Automatic for All
• 7 “A little earthly idol to contract your ideas”
• PART THREE: Organisms
• 8 Schelling’s Uncanny Organism
• 9 “It . . . lives by dying”
• 10 The Metaphysical Machinery of Mining in Novalis’s Works
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index