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Literary Theory/Cultural Studies
Explores literary theory's fear of and fascination with the mechanical.
Anxieties about fixing the absolute difference between the human being and the mechanical replica of the human being, 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 figures of the automaton and of the preindustrial machine haunt the imagination of ancien rgime France and structure key moments of the canonical literature and criticism of the period.
Catherine 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.
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Catherine Liu is the co-founder of New Hope of China, with mission to give hope to the young and old in the impoverished regions of China and beyond via schools, training, and community projects. Mother of four grown children and nine grandchildren, Catherine continues her beloved husband's life time goal, to bridge America and China with God's word and love.
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- PublisherUniv Of Minnesota Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 081663503X
- ISBN 13 9780816635030
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