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 w...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Girten, Kristin M. ca. 20./21. Jh (HerausgeberIn), Hanlon, Aaron R. 1982- (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Bucknell University Press 2023
Schriftenreihe:	Aperçus: histories texts cultures
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1600-1830 Literatur Englisch Technologie Aufsatzsammlung
Zusammenfassung:	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.
Beschreibung:	vi, 208 Seiten Illustrationen Breite 156 mm, Hoehe 235 mm
ISBN:	9781684483952 9781684483969