How Long to Read The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature

How Long Does it Take to Read The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 43 minutes to read The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature by Dr Wendy Beth Hyman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature features original essays exploring the automaton-from animated statue to anthropomorphized machine-in the poetry, prose, and drama of England in the 16th and 17th centuries. Addressing the history and significance of the living machine in early modern literature, the collection places literary automata of the period within their larger aesthetic, historical, philosophical, and scientific contexts. While no single theory or perspective conscribes the volume, taken as a whole the collection helps correct an assumption that frequently emerges from a post-Enlightenment perspective: that these animated beings are by definition exemplars of the new science, or that they point necessarily to man's triumphant relationship to technology. On the contrary, automata in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries seem only partly and sporadically to function as embodiments of an emerging mechanistic or materialist worldview. Renaissance automata were just as likely not to confirm for viewers a hypothesis about the man-machine. Instead, these essays show, automata were often a source of wonder, suggestive of magic, proof of the uncannily animating effect of poetry-indeed, just as likely to unsettle the divide between man and divinity as that between man and matter.

How long is The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature?

The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature by Dr Wendy Beth Hyman is 222 pages long, and a total of 55,944 words.

This makes it 75% the length of the average book. It also has 68% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 5 minutes to read The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature aloud.

What Reading Level is The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature?

The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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