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Technology and Literature: Cambridge Critical Concepts

Editat de Adam Hammond
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 feb 2024
Whereas previous books have explored how literature depicts or discusses scientific concepts, this book argues that literature is a technology. It shows how literature has been shaped by technological revolutions, and reveals the essential work that literature has done in helping to uncover the consequences of new technologies. Individual chapters focus on how specific literary technologies – the development of writing, the printing press, typewriters, the computer – changed the kinds of stories it was possible to tell, and how one could tell them. They also cover the way that literature has engaged with non-literary technologies – clocks, compasses, trains, telegraphs, cameras, bombs, computer networks – to help its readers to work through the new social configurations and new possibilities for human identity and imagination that they unveil. Human life is inescapably mediated through technology; literature demonstrates this, and thus helps its readers to engage consciously and actively with their technological worlds.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781108472586
ISBN-10: 1108472583
Pagini: 350
Greutate: 0.81 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Critical Concepts

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

List of figures; List of contributors; Timeline; Introduction Adam Hammond; Part I. Origins: 1. Orality and writing I. J. MacRae; 2. Manuscript Bonnie Mak; 3. The hand press, 1450–1800 Paula McDowell; 4. The mechanical press, 1800–1900 Simon Reader; 5. The typewriter Darren Wershler; 6. Literature in the electric age Lise Jaillant; 7. Digital text Maxwell Foxman; Part II. Developments: 8. Prostheses Alice Hall; 9. Clocks Scott Lightsey; 10. Compasses Chris Barrett; 11. Telescopes Peter C. Herman; 12. Steam engines Nicola Kirkby; 13. Wires Aaron Worth; 14. Cameras Beci Carver; 15. Phonographs Jason Camlot; 16. Waves and rays Jennifer A. Janecheck; 17. The bomb Ann Larabee; 18. Networks David Ciccoricco; Part III. Applications: 19. Distant reading Natalie M. Houston; 20. Visualization Daniel Carter; 21. Digital editions Susan Brown; Index.

Descriere

This book argues that literature is a technology – a technology, moreover, that helps its readers to understand their technological environment.