Renaissance Responses to Technological Change

• Main Author: Nayar, Sheila J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Europe-History-1492-.; Technology-History.; Literature-History and criticism.; Literature, Modern.; Books-History.; History of Early Modern Europe.; History of Technology.; Literary History.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; History of the Book.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.