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Androids and Intelligent Networks in
Early Modern Literature and Culture
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This book explores the creation and use of artificially made humanoid ser-
vants and servant networks by fictional and non-fictional scientists of the
early modern period. Beginning with an investigation of the roots of arti-
ficial servants, humanoids, and automata from earlier times, LaGrandeur
traces how these literary representations coincide with a surging interest
in automata and experimentation, and how they blend with the magical
science that preceded the empirical era. In the instances that this book
considers, the idea of the artificial factotum is connected with an emotional
paradox: the joy of self-enhancement is counterpoised with the anxiety of
self-displacement that comes with distribution of agency. In this way, the
older accounts of creating artificial slaves are accounts of modernity in the
making—a modernity characterized by the project of extending the self
and its powers, in which the vision of the extended self is fundamentally
inseparable from the vision of an attenuated self. This book discusses the
idea that fictional, artificial servants embody at once the ambitions of the
scientific wizards who make them and society’s perception of the dangers
of those ambitions; and that artificial servants represent the cultural fears
triggered by independent, experimental thinkers—the type of thinkers
from whom our modern cyberneticists descend.
Kevin LaGrandeur
is Associate Professor of English at the New York Insti-
tute of Technology (NYIT).
Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
1 Stillness in Motion in the
Seventeenth-Century Theatre
P.A. Skantze
2 The Popular Culture of
Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson
Mary Ellen Lamb
3 Forgetting in Early Modern
English Literature and Culture
Lethe’s Legacies
Edited by Christopher Ivic and
Grant Williams
4 Luce Irigaray and Premodern
Culture
Thresholds of History
Edited by Theresa Krier and
Elizabeth D. Harvey
5 Writing, Geometry and Space in
Seventeenth-Century England
and America
Circles in the Sand
Jess Edwards
6 Dramatists and their Manuscripts
in the Age of Shakespeare,
Jonson, Middleton and Heywood
Authorship, Authority and the
Playhouse
Grace Ioppolo
7 Reading the Early Modern Dream
The Terrors of the Night
Edited by Katharine Hodgkin,
Michelle O’ Callaghan, and
S. J. Wiseman
8 Fictions of Old Age in Early
Modern Literature and Culture
Nina Taunton
9 Performing Race and Torture on
the Early Modern Stage
Ayanna Thompson
10 Women, Murder, and Equity in
Early Modern England
Randall Martin
11 Staging Early Modern
Romance
Prose Fiction, Dramatic
Romance, and Shakespeare
Edited by Mary Ellen Lamb
and Valerie Wayne
12 The Uses of the Future in Early
Modern Europe
Edited by Andrea Brady and
Emily Butterworth
13 Making Publics in Early
Modern Europe
People, Things, Forms of
Knowledge
Edited by Bronwen Wilson
and Paul Yachnin
14 Representing the Plague in
Early Modern England
Edited by Rebecca Totaro
and Ernest B. Gilman
15 Prophecy and Sibylline
Imagery in the Renaissance
Shakespeare’s Sibyls
Jessica L. Malay
16 Ecocriticism and Early
Modern English Literature
Green Pastures
Todd A. Borlik
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17 Narrative Developments from
Chaucer to Defoe
Edited by Gerd Bayer and
Ebbe Klitgård
18 Moral Play and Counterpublic
Transformations in Moral Drama,
1465–1599
Ineke Murakami
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19 Family and the State in Early
Modern Revenge Drama
Economies of Vengeance
Chris McMahon
20 Sin and Filth in Medieval
Culture
The Devil in the Latrine
Martha Bayless
21 Patrons and Patron Saints
in Early Modern English
Literature
Alison A. Chapman
22 Androids and Intelligent
Networks in Early Modern
Literature and Culture
Artificial Slaves
Kevin LaGrandeur
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