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OverviewExplores literary theory's fear of and fascination with the mechanical. Anxieties about fixing the absolute difference between the human being and the mechanical replica, the automaton, are as old as the first appearance of the machine itself. Exploring these anxieties and the efforts they prompted, this book opens a window on one of the most significant, if subtle, ideological battles waged on behalf of the human against the machine since the Enlightenment-one that continues in the wake of technological and conceptual progress today. A sustained examination of the automaton as early modern machine and as a curious ancestor of the twentieth-century robot, Copying Machines offers extended readings of mechanistic images in the eighteenth century through the prism of twentieth-century commentary. In readings of texts by Lafayette, Molire, Laclos, and La Bruyre-and in a chapter on the eighteenth-century inventor of automatons, Jacques Vaucanson-Catherine Liu provides a fascinating account of ways in which the automaton and the preindustrial machine haunt the imagination of ancien rgime France and structure key moments of the canonical literature and criticism of the period. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Catherine LiuPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.90cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.320kg ISBN: 9780816635030ISBN 10: 081663503 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 20 October 2000 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationCatherine Liu is assistant professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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