Romantic Automata
Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms
Herausgeber: Demson, Michael; Clason, Christopher R
Romantic Automata
Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms
Herausgeber: Demson, Michael; Clason, Christopher R
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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.
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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.
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- Verlag: Bucknell University Press
- Seitenzahl: 264
- Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2020
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 236mm x 154mm x 16mm
- Gewicht: 390g
- ISBN-13: 9781684481767
- ISBN-10: 1684481767
- Artikelnr.: 57578370
- Verlag: Bucknell University Press
- Seitenzahl: 264
- Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2020
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 236mm x 154mm x 16mm
- Gewicht: 390g
- ISBN-13: 9781684481767
- ISBN-10: 1684481767
- Artikelnr.: 57578370
Michael Demson is an associate professor at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, where he teaches courses in Romanticism, literary theory, and world literature. He has published numerous scholarly articles, co-edited Commemorating Peterloo: Violence, Resilience and Claim-Making in the Romantic Era (2019) and a graphic novel, Masks of Anarchy (2013). Christopher R. Clason is an emeritus professor of German language and literature at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He has authored numerous articles in German medieval and Romantic literature. He is the editor of E.T.A. Hoffmann: Transgressive Romanticism (2018) and co-editor of several collections of essays.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors and Co-editors
Introduction
Michael Demson and Christopher R. Clason
Chapters:
Section I: Exhibitions
1. The Uncanny Valley: E. T. A. Hoffmann, Sigmund Freud, Masahiro Mori
Frederick Burwick
2. The (Re-)Winding of Hoffmann’s Automata: from Offenbach’s 1881 Opera
to Powell and Pressburger’s 1951 Film
Ashley Shams
3. Wounded Bodies in the Lithographs of Théodore Géricault, 1818-1820
Peter Erickson
Section II: Figures
4. Romantic Tales of Pseudo Automata: The Chess-Playing Turk in
Hoffmann, Poe, and Benjamin
Wendy Nielsen
5. On Toys, Violence, and Automated Gender
Erin Goss
6. Automatic for All: Mary Shelley’s Posthuman Passion
Kate Singer
7. “A little earthly idol to contract your ideas”: Global Hermeneutics
in Phebe Gibbes’s Zoriada, or, Village Annals (1786)
Kathryn Freeman
Section III: Organisms
8. Schelling’s Uncanny Organism
Stefani Engelstein
9. “it […] lives by dying”: S. T. Coleridge’s Mechanical Life and
Colonial Necropolitics
Lenora Hanson
10. The Metaphysical Machinery of Mining in Novalis’s Works
Christina M. Weiler
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors and Co-editors
Introduction
Michael Demson and Christopher R. Clason
Chapters:
Section I: Exhibitions
1. The Uncanny Valley: E. T. A. Hoffmann, Sigmund Freud, Masahiro Mori
Frederick Burwick
2. The (Re-)Winding of Hoffmann’s Automata: from Offenbach’s 1881 Opera
to Powell and Pressburger’s 1951 Film
Ashley Shams
3. Wounded Bodies in the Lithographs of Théodore Géricault, 1818-1820
Peter Erickson
Section II: Figures
4. Romantic Tales of Pseudo Automata: The Chess-Playing Turk in
Hoffmann, Poe, and Benjamin
Wendy Nielsen
5. On Toys, Violence, and Automated Gender
Erin Goss
6. Automatic for All: Mary Shelley’s Posthuman Passion
Kate Singer
7. “A little earthly idol to contract your ideas”: Global Hermeneutics
in Phebe Gibbes’s Zoriada, or, Village Annals (1786)
Kathryn Freeman
Section III: Organisms
8. Schelling’s Uncanny Organism
Stefani Engelstein
9. “it […] lives by dying”: S. T. Coleridge’s Mechanical Life and
Colonial Necropolitics
Lenora Hanson
10. The Metaphysical Machinery of Mining in Novalis’s Works
Christina M. Weiler
Bibliography
Index