Androids and intelligent networks in early modern literature and culture : artificial slaves /
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| Author / Creator: | LaGrandeur, Kevin. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Routledge, 2013. |
| Description: | xiv, 207 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 22 Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 22. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9039192 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Intelligent Tools/Rebellious Agents
- Part I. In Our Physical Image: Bodies, Body Parts, and Instruments
- 2. Real Human Automata from the Pre-Empirical Era
- 3. Whole Bodies: Alchemy, Cabala, and the Embodiment of Force
- 4. Body Parts: Talking Brass Heads, Dangerous Knowledge, and Robert Greene's Plays
- Part II. In Our Operative Image: The Networked Servant Foreshadowed
- 5. Prospero's Ethereal Prosthesis
- 6. Doctor Faustus: Losing Control of the Apparatus
- 7. Points of Contact
