Technology, Literature and Culture provides a detailed and
accessible exploration of the ways in which literature across the
twentieth century has represented the inescapable presence and
progress of technology. As this study argues, from the Fordist
revolution in manufacturing to computers and the internet,
technology has reconfigured our relationship to ourselves, each
other, and to the tools and material we use.
The book considers such key topics as the legacy of
late-nineteenth century technology, the literary engagement with
cinema and radio, the place of typewriters and computers in formal
and thematic literary innovations, the representations of
technology in spy fiction and the figures of the robot and the
cyborg. It considers the importance of broadcast technology and the
internet in literature and covers major literary movements
including modernism, cold war writing, postmodernism and the
emergence of new textualities at the end of the century.
An insightful and wide-ranging study, Technology, Literature and
Culture offers close readings of writers such as Virginia Woolf,
Samuel Beckett, Ian Fleming, Kurt Vonnegut, Don DeLillo, Jeanette
Winterson and Shelley Jackson. It is an invaluable resource for
students and scholars alike in literary and cultural studies, and
also introduces the topic to a general reader interested in the
role of technology in the twentieth century.
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