Renaissance Responses to Technological Change (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

This book foregrounds the pressures that three transformative technologies in the long sixteenth century-the printing press, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass-placed on long-held literary practices, as well as on cultural and social structures. Sheila J. Nayar disinters the clash between humanist drives and print culture; places the rise of gunpowder warfare beside the equivalent rise in chivalric romance; and illustrates fraught attempts by humanists to hold on to classicist traditions in the face of seismic changes in navigation. Lively and engaging, this study illuminates not only how literature responded to radical technological changes, but also how literature was sometimes forced, through unanticipated destabilizations, to reimagine itself. By tracing the early modern human's inter-animation with print, powder, and compass, Nayar exposes how these technologies assisted in producing new ways of seeing, knowing, and being in the world.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	November 2018
First published:	2019
Authors:	Sheila J. Nayar
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	366
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-96898-8
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > History of engineering & technology Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General
LSN:	3-319-96898-X
Barcode:	9783319968988

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