Renaissance Responses to Technological Change /

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...

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Main Author:	Nayar, Sheila J. (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	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. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book