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• Title:Technology and literature / edited by Adam Hammond.
  
• ISBN:9781108560740 (ebook)
  9781108472586 (hardback)
  9781108460019 (paperback)
  
• Publication:Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
  
• Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 421 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
  
• Links:Online book
  

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• Summary: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.
  
• Variant and related titles:Cambridge core frontlist 2023.
  
• Other formats:Print version:
  
• Format:Book
• Series:Cambridge critical concepts
  Cambridge critical concepts.
  
• Contents:Introduction / Adam Hammond -- Orality and writing / I. J. MacRae -- Manuscript / Bonnie Mak -- The hand press, 1450-1800 / Paula McDowell -- The mechanical press, 1800-1900 / Simon Reader -- The typewriter / Darren Wershler -- Literature in the electric age / Lise Jaillant -- Digital text / Maxwell Foxman -- Prostheses / Alice Hall -- Clocks / Scott Lightsey -- Compasses / Chris Barrett -- Telescopes / Peter C. Herman -- Steam engines / Nicola Kirkby -- Wires / Aaron Worth -- Cameras / Beci Carver -- Phonographs / Jason Camlot -- Waves and rays / Jennifer A. Janecheck -- The bomb / Ann Larabee -- Networks / David Ciccoricco -- Distant reading / Natalie M. Houston -- Visualization / Daniel Carter -- Digital editions / Susan Brown.
  
• Subjects:Literature and technology.
  
• Also listed under:Hammond, Adam, 1981- editor.