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Informationen zum Autor KRISTIN M. GIRTEN is an associate professor of English and assistant vice chancellor for the arts and humanities at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her research focuses on intersections between literature, philosophy, and science in the British Enlightenment and in the twenty-first century, giving special emphasis to how women and other marginalized groups contribute to and feel the effects of such intersections.AARON R. HANLON is an associate professor of English and chair of the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. He is the author of A World of Disorderly Notions: Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism. Klappentext British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830 examines the relationship between literature and technology in two directions: not only the impact of technology on Enlightenment British literature, but also the impact of literature on conceptions of, attitudes toward, and implementations of technology in the period. Zusammenfassung British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830 examines the relationship between literature and technology in two directions: not only the impact of technology on Enlightenment British literature, but also the impact of literature on conceptions of, attitudes toward, and implementations of technology in the period. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionKristin M. Girten and Aaron R. HanlonChapter 1: Webster’s Baroque Experiments and the Testing of Technology in the Early 1600sLaura FrancisChapter 2: Telling Time in the Fiction of Mary Hearne and Daniel DefoeErik L. JohnsonChapter 3: The Technology and Theatricality of Three Hours after Marriage’s “Touch-Stone of Virginity”Thomas A. OldhamChapter 4: Gulliver’s Travels, Automation, and the Reckoning AuthorZachary M. MannChapter 5: Designing the Enlightenment AnthropoceneKevin MacDonnellChapter 6: Technology, Temporality, and Queer Form in Horace Walpole’s GothicEmily M. WestChapter 7: Telegraphic Supremacy in Maria Edgeworth’s “Lame Jervas”Deven M. ParkerChapter 8: Percy Shelley, Political Machines, and the Pre-History of the Post-LiberalJamison KantorAfterword: On the Uses of the History of Technology for Literary Studies and Vice VersaJoseph DruryBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex...
