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British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830 (Paperback)
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British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830 (Paperback)
Series: Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
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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.”
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