Marsden Haddock and the Androides: Entertainment, Late Georgian Cork and the Wider World - Couverture souple

Cronin, Neil

 
9781801510967: Marsden Haddock and the Androides: Entertainment, Late Georgian Cork and the Wider World
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1801510962 ISBN 13 : 9781801510967
Editeur : Four Courts Press Ltd, 2023

Synopsis

By the late eighteenth century, many people had designated leisure time. The appetite for novelty in popular entertainment became insatiable. The hero of this story is Marsden Haddock, who devised an exhibition of mechanical ingenuity, the Androides. Haddock's spectacle originated in Cork in 1794, from where he then toured through the English-speaking Atlantic world (a reversal of the usual trend) with considerable success for many years. The word Androide became synonymous with his devices. In probing the penumbra between man and machine, between the animate and the inanimate, Haddock's lifelike automata and other figures provoked wonder and often fear. A singular character, Haddock was distinguished by ingenuity, versatility and, in the face of recurrent setbacks, resilience. This volume positions him and his entertainment as products of the booming war-economy of Cork city, and uses its ready reception as an illustration of the integration of urban Cork into the wider world.

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À propos de l?auteur

Neil Cronin has previously authored The medical profession and the exercise of power in early nineteenth-century Cork in the Maynooth Studies in Local History series (Dublin, 2014).

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Éditeur
Four Courts Press Ltd
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1801510962
ISBN 13 
9781801510967
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
72
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