Romantic automata: exhibitions, figures, organisms
Éditeur :
Bucknell University Press,U.S.
ISBN :
9781684481767
Date de publication :
17 avr. 2020
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 x 2,0 cm
Poids :
399 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
A deep dread of puppets and the machinery that propels them surfaced in Romantic literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. This book 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.