Renaissance Responses to Technological Change

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.