British literature and technology, 1600-1830 /
"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 literatu...
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Lewisburg, Pennsylvania :
Bucknell University Press,
[2023]
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| Edice: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18427178 |
Obsah:
- Introduction / Kristin M. Girten and Aaron R. Hanlon
- 1. Webster's baroque experiments and the testing of technology in the early 1600s / Laura Francis
- 2. Telling time in the fiction of Mary Hearne and Daniel Defoe / Erik L. Johnson
- 3. The technology and theatricality of Three Hours after Marriage's "touch-stone of virginity" / Thomas A. Oldham
- 4. Gulliver's Travels, automation, and the reckoning author / Zachary M. Mann
- 5. Designing the Enlightenment Anthropocene / Kevin MacDonnell
- 6. Technology, temporality, and queer form in Horace Walpole's Gothic / Emily M. West
- 7. Telegraphic supremacy in Maria Edgeworth's "Lame Jervas" / Deven M. Parker
- 8. Percy Shelley, political machines, and the prehistory of the postliberal / Jamison Kantor
- Afterword: On the uses of the history of technology for literary studies and vice versa / Joseph Drury.