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  • Formāts: Hardback, 216 pages, height x width x depth: 235x156x20 mm, weight: 458 g, 6 b-w illus., 8 color illus.
  • Sērija : Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
  • Izdošanas datums: 13-Jan-2023
  • Izdevniecība: Rutgers University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1684483964
  • ISBN-13: 9781684483969
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 216 pages, height x width x depth: 235x156x20 mm, weight: 458 g, 6 b-w illus., 8 color illus.
  • Sērija : Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
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  • ISBN-10: 1684483964
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"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.""--

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.”

 

 



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.

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"This collection is full of superb scholarship that makes substantial contributions to our understanding of technology." * Technology and Culture * By focusing exclusively on humanitys unruly tools, this book opens a compelling mosaic view of technology that tiles together everything from the wiles of Jacobean stagecraft to the terza rima utopias of Romantic poets (10). . . . The essays gathered in British Literature and Technology, 16001830 will hold broad interest for . . . anyonecritic, teacher, studentseeking tools to comprehend human intervention in the world. * Eighteenth-Century Fiction * "British Literature and Technology, 16001830 has much to offer readers interested in the social history of technology and in literature and science studies more broadly." * Journal of British Studies * In a series of wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and finely argued essays, this volume marks a major advance in studies of science and literature. By thinking about literature itself as a kind of technology, the collection represents interdisciplinary scholarship at its best. -- Jess Keiser * author of Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience * Innovative in concept, scope, and execution, Girten and Hanlons collection studies the rich interplay between literature and technology during the scientific revolution. Prefaced by a sophisticated introduction, this volume is necessary reading for students and scholars interested in literary studies, science, technology and society, and the history of science. -- Tita Chico * author of The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment *

Introduction 1(13)
Kristin M. Girten
Aaron R. Hanlon
1 Webster's Baroque Experiments and the Testing of Technology in the Early 1600s
14(17)
Laura Francis
2 Telling Time in the Fiction of Mary Hearne and Daniel Defoe
31(15)
Erik L. Johnson
3 The Technology and Theatricality of Three Hours after Marriage's "Touch-Stone of Virginity"
46(14)
Thomas A. Oldham
4 Gulliver's Travels, Automation, and the Reckoning Author
60(19)
Zachary M. Mann
5 Designing the Enlightenment Anthropocene
79(20)
Kevin MacDonnell
6 Technology, Temporality, and Queer Form in Horace Walpole's Gothic
99(24)
Emily M. West
7 Telegraphic Supremacy in Maria Edgeworth's "Lame Jervas"
123(16)
Deven M. Parker
8 Percy Shelley, Political Machines, and the Prehistory of the Postliberal
139(25)
Jamison Kantor
Afterword: On the Uses of the History of Technology for Literary Studies and Vice Versa 164(13)
Joseph Drury
Bibliography 177(22)
Notes on Contributors 199(4)
Index 203
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.