Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART ONE: Exhibitions
6. 1 The Uncanny Valley 19
7. 2 The (Re-)Winding of Hoffmann’s Automata 35
8. 3 Uncanny Prosthetics 51
9. PART TWO: Figures
10. 4 Romantic Tales of Pseudo-Automata 87
11. 5 Rattled Women, Shaken Toys 106
12. 6 Automatic for All 128
13. 7 “A little earthly idol to contract your ideas” 146
14. PART THREE: Organisms
15. 8 Schelling’s Uncanny Organism 167
16. 9 “It . . . lives by dying” 186
17. 10 The Metaphysical Machinery of Mining in Novalis’s Works 204
18. Acknowledgments 221
19. Bibliography 223
20. Notes on Contributors 239
21. Index 243