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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Tác giả khác: Girten, Kristin M. (Biên tập viên), Hanlon, Aaron R. (Aaron Raymond), 1982- (Biên tập viên)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2023]
Loạt:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18427178
Mục lục:
  • 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.