Romantic Automata : : Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms / / ed. by Michael Demson, Christopher R. Clason.
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,...
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Place / Publishing House: | Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 9 B-W illustrations, 12 color illustrations |
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