Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1 Webster’s Baroque Experiments and the Testing of Technology in the Early 1600s 14
5. Chapter 2 Telling Time in the Fiction of Mary Hearne and Daniel Defoe 31
6. Chapter 3 The Technology and Theatricality of Three Hours after Marriage’s “Touch-Stone of Virginity” 46
7. Chapter 4 Gulliver’s Travels, Automation, and the Reckoning Author 60
8. Chapter 5 Designing the Enlightenment Anthropocene 79
9. Chapter 6 Technology, Temporality, and Queer Form in Horace Walpole’s Gothic 99
10. Chapter 7 Telegraphic Supremacy in Maria Edgeworth’s “Lame Jervas” 123
11. Chapter 8 Percy Shelley, Political Machines, and the Prehistory of the Postliberal 139
12. Afterword: on the uses of the history of technology for literary studies and vice versa 164
13. Bibliography 177
14. Notes on Contributors 199
15. Index 203