Technology and the Early Modern Self

✍ Scribed by Adam Max Cohen (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 271
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: A New Instrument....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
The Clockwork Self: Mechanical Clockwork and Early Modern Discipline....Pages 23-50
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
Confessions of a Man in Print: Cataloguing Erasmian Literary Ambition....Pages 53-70
Painted Words Put into the Press: The Forms and Functions of Ambition in Spenser’s The Shepheardes Calender....Pages 71-89
All Works and No Plays: Jonson’s 1616 Folio and the Redefinition of Dramatic Authorship....Pages 91-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
The Nimble Gunner and the Versatile Prince: Agility and the Early Modern Military Revolution....Pages 115-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Perspectives on Perspective: The Philosophic Eye and the Prehistory of the Telescope and the Microscope....Pages 137-150
A New “Perspective Glass”: Telescopic Discoveries of Universal Uniformity....Pages 151-171
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand”: Microscopic Perspectives on Subvisible Wonders....Pages 173-207
Afterword: Reconsiderations and Prospects....Pages 209-213
Back Matter....Pages 215-268

✦ Subjects

Literary Theory; Cultural and Media Studies, general

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