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British literature and technology, 1600-1830 / edited by Kristin M. Girten and Aaron R. Hanlon.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2023]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSECopyright date: [2023]Description: 1 online resource (vi, 208 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1684483972
  • 9781684483990
  • 1684483999
  • 9781684483976
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 820.9/356 23/eng/20220921
LOC classification:
  • PR149.T43 B75 2023
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.'"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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.'"-- Provided by publisher.

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. AARON R. HANLON is an associate professor of English and chair of the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

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