{"product_id":"romantic-automata-michael-demson-9781684481767","title":"Romantic Automata: Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms","description":"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, the source of compassion in human society. A deep dread of puppets and the machinery that propels them consequently surfaced in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature. \u003ci\u003eRomantic Automata\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of essays examining the rise of this cultural suspicion of mechanical imitations of life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Recent scholarship in post-humanism, post-colonialism, disability studies, post-modern feminism, eco-criticism, and radical Orientalism has significantly affected the critical discourse on this topic. In engaging with the work and thought of Coleridge, Poe, Hoffmann, Mary Shelley, and other Romantic luminaries, the contributors to this collection open new methodological approaches to understanding human interaction with technology that strives to simulate, supplement, or supplant organic life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Demson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1684481767\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781684481767\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bucknell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Michael Demson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43941480988927,"sku":"9781684481767","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_fce73da9-e0b3-40ab-b521-49eb8666ff3d.jpg?v=1681453170","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/romantic-automata-michael-demson-9781684481767","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}