British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830 examines the relationship between literature and technology in two directions: not only the impact of technology on Enlightenment British literature, but also the impact of literature on conceptions of, attitudes toward, and implementations of technology in the period.
British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830 examines the relationship between literature and technology in two directions: not only the impact of technology on Enlightenment British literature, but also the impact of literature on conceptions of, attitudes toward, and implementations of technology in the period.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
KRISTIN M. GIRTEN is an associate professor of English and assistant vice chancellor for the arts and humanities at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her research focuses on intersections between literature, philosophy, and science in the British Enlightenment and in the twenty-first century, giving special emphasis to how women and other marginalized groups contribute to and feel the effects of such intersections. AARON R. HANLON is an associate professor of English and chair of the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. He is the author of A World of Disorderly Notions: Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism.
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Introduction Kristin M. Girten and Aaron R. Hanlon Chapter 1: Webster’s Baroque Experiments and the Testing of Technology in the Early 1600s Laura Francis Chapter 2: Telling Time in the Fiction of Mary Hearne and Daniel Defoe Erik L. Johnson Chapter 3: The Technology and Theatricality of Three Hours after Marriage’s “Touch-Stone of Virginity” Thomas A. Oldham Chapter 4: Gulliver’s Travels, Automation, and the Reckoning Author Zachary M. Mann Chapter 5: Designing the Enlightenment Anthropocene Kevin MacDonnell Chapter 6: Technology, Temporality, and Queer Form in Horace Walpole’s Gothic Emily M. West Chapter 7: Telegraphic Supremacy in Maria Edgeworth’s “Lame Jervas” Deven M. Parker Chapter 8: Percy Shelley, Political Machines, and the Pre-History of the Post-Liberal Jamison Kantor Afterword: On the Uses of the History of Technology for Literary Studies and Vice Versa Joseph Drury Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
Introduction Kristin M. Girten and Aaron R. Hanlon Chapter 1: Webster’s Baroque Experiments and the Testing of Technology in the Early 1600s Laura Francis Chapter 2: Telling Time in the Fiction of Mary Hearne and Daniel Defoe Erik L. Johnson Chapter 3: The Technology and Theatricality of Three Hours after Marriage’s “Touch-Stone of Virginity” Thomas A. Oldham Chapter 4: Gulliver’s Travels, Automation, and the Reckoning Author Zachary M. Mann Chapter 5: Designing the Enlightenment Anthropocene Kevin MacDonnell Chapter 6: Technology, Temporality, and Queer Form in Horace Walpole’s Gothic Emily M. West Chapter 7: Telegraphic Supremacy in Maria Edgeworth’s “Lame Jervas” Deven M. Parker Chapter 8: Percy Shelley, Political Machines, and the Pre-History of the Post-Liberal Jamison Kantor Afterword: On the Uses of the History of Technology for Literary Studies and Vice Versa Joseph Drury Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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