Renaissance Responses to Technological Change

Sheila J. Nayar (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XIII, 366 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-96898-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Sheila J. Nayar is Professor of English, Communication, and Media Studies at Greensboro College, USA. She is the author of three previous books, including Dante's Sacred Poem, and has published widely on the intersections of narrative, technology, and phenomenology, including in JAAR, PMLA, and Studies in Philology.

1. From Petrarch to Bacon, Technécology Style: Introduction.- I. The Comedy of Errata.- 2. From Print Error to Human Errancy in Print.- 3. The Literary Erotics of Print and Misprint.- II. Arms or the Man.- 4. The Golden Age of Chivalry in the Iron Age of Gunpowder.- 5. Plebeian Presence in the Age of Gunpowder.- III. Plus Ultra! Further Yet!.- 6. Renegotiating the World by Compass and Card.- 7. Space, Place, and Literary Self-Projection.- 8. Technological Inter-animation, Writ Large: Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.11.2018
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 366 p. 31 illus., 25 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	621 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Don Quixote • early modern cartography • Early Modern Technology • Elizabethan drama • FranÃ ois Rabelais • François Rabelais • gunpowder warfare • History of Gunpowder • Jacobean theater • John Donne • Media Ecology • Petrarch's humanism • Renaissance literary culture • Renaissance print culture • Shakespeare • Technological Determinism • technology and culture • Technology and Romance • The Magnetic Compass • the Printing Press • William Shakespeare
ISBN-10	3-319-96898-X / 331996898X
ISBN-13	978-3-319-96898-8 / 9783319968988
Zustand	Neuware