"Romantic Automata is fascinating if idiosyncratic, and I enjoyed reading the essays immensely. Exploring literary representations of the relationship between the mechanical and the human or organic, this well-researched collection brings a range of theoretical approaches and primary sources to bear on an otherwise largely canonical debate. The readings are insightful and original, the arguments compelling and clear." -- Ghislaine McDayter, author of Byromania and the Birth of Celebrity Culture "Romantic Automata is a strong collection of essays that engages a broad spectrum of European Romanticism. It fills a real need in the current scholarship of Romanticism as it connects the literary fascination with automata, dolls, and machines of the early nineteenth century with contemporary theoretical concerns with gender representation and the posthuman." -- William Davis, author of Romanticism, Hellenism, and the Philosophy of Nature "Romantic Automata is a strong collection of essays that engages a broad spectrum of European Romanticism. It fills a real need in the current scholarship of Romanticism as it connects the literary fascination with automata, dolls, and machines of the early nineteenth century with contemporary theoretical concerns with gender representation and the posthuman." -- William Davis, author of Romanticism, Hellenism, and the Philosophy of Nature "Romantic Automata is fascinating if idiosyncratic, and I enjoyed reading the essays immensely.

Exploring literary representations of the relationship between the mechanical and the human or organic, this well-researched collection brings a range of theoretical approaches and primary sources to bear on an otherwise largely canonical debate. The readings are insightful and original, the arguments compelling and clear." -- Ghislaine McDayter, author of Byromania and the Birth of Celebrity Culture ". a rich volume full of interesting topics and novel insights that makes a significant contribution to the study of the early history of posthumanism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."-- European Romantic Review.