British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830 / / ed. by Aaron R. Hanlon, Kristin M. Girten.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Drury, Joseph,; Francis, Laura,; Girten, Kristin M.,; Hanlon, Aaron R.,; Johnson, Erik L.,; Kantor, Jamison,; MacDonnell, Kevin,; Mann, Zachary M.,; Oldham, Thomas A.,; Parker, Deven M.,; West, Emily M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Girten, Kristin M.,; Hanlon, Aaron R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 p.) :; 6 b-w illus., 8 color illus.

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 a...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Webster’s Baroque Experiments and the Testing of Technology in the Early 1600s
• Chapter 2 Telling Time in the Fiction of Mary Hearne and Daniel Defoe
• Chapter 3 The Technology and Theatricality of Three Hours after Marriage’s “Touch-Stone of Virginity”
• Chapter 4 Gulliver’s Travels, Automation, and the Reckoning Author
• Chapter 5 Designing the Enlightenment Anthropocene
• Chapter 6 Technology, Temporality, and Queer Form in Horace Walpole’s Gothic
• Chapter 7 Telegraphic Supremacy in Maria Edgeworth’s “Lame Jervas”
• Chapter 8 Percy Shelley, Political Machines, and the Prehistory of the Postliberal
• Afterword: on the uses of the history of technology for literary studies and vice versa
• Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index