TY - GEN T1 - British literature and technology, 1600-1830 T2 - Book collections on Project MUSE. A2 - Girten, Kristin M. A2 - Hanlon, Aaron R. (Aaron Raymond), 1982- LA - English PP - Lewisburg, Pennsylvania PB - Bucknell University Press YR - 2023 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1349448040 AB - "Enlightenment-era writers had not yet come to take technology for granted, but nonetheless were--as we are today--both attracted to and repelled by its potential. This volume registers the deep history of such ambivalence, examining technology's influence on Enlightenment British literature, as well as the impact of literature on conceptions of, attitudes toward, and implementations of technology. Offering a counterbalance to the abundance of studies on literature and science in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain, this volume's focus encompasses approaches to literary history that help us understand technologies like the steam engine and the telegraph along with representations of technology in literature such as the 'political machine.' Contributors ultimately show how literature across genres provided important sites for Enlightenment readers to recognize themselves as 'chimeras'--'hybrids of machine and organism'--and to explore the modern self as 'a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.'"-- OP - 208 CN - PR149.T43 B75 2023 SN - 1684483972 SN - 9781684483990 SN - 1684483999 SN - 9781684483976 SN - 9781684483969 SN - 1684483964 SN - 9781684483952 SN - 1684483956 KW - English literature : 17th century : History and criticism. KW - English literature : 18th century : History and criticism. KW - English literature : 19th century : History and criticism. KW - Literature and technology. KW - English literature : Early modern, 1500-1700 : History and criticism. KW - Littérature anglaise : 17e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Littérature anglaise : 18e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Littérature anglaise : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Littérature et technologie. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General. KW - Literature and technology KW - English literature KW - 1600-1899 KW - Electronic books. KW - Literary criticism KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Literary criticism. KW - Critiques littéraires. ER -