TY - BOOK ID - 134478032 TI - Technology and literature PY - 2024 SN - 9781108560740 1108560741 9781108472586 9781108460019 1108608337 110861406X 1108472583 9781108608336 9781108614061 PB - Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Literature and technology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134478032 AB - 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. ER -