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)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Subjects:	Technology and civilization. Technological innovations > Social aspects. Literature and technology.