...Britt M. Rusert Duke University Press 2007 Technophobia! Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology . By Daniel Dinello. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. 2005. 329 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $24.95. Color Monitors: The Black Face of Technology in America . By Martin...

... . By Russell Emily . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2011 . 253 pp. $44.95 . Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology . By Colatrella Carol . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . 2011 . 246 pp. $46.95 . © 2013 by Duke University Press...

... . 640 pp. Paper, $55.00 ; e-book, $38.99 . Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Thinking about the state of technology today necessarily means thinking about a number of interrelated but distinct entities. Considering the nuts and bolts of a news story in which, say, some corporate...

...Lisa Lynch Print Technology in Scotland and America, 1740–1800 . By McAuley Louis Kirk . Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell Univ. Press ; Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield . 2013 . xv, 327 pp. Cloth , $90.00 ; e-book, $89.99 . The Camera and the Press: American Visual and Print...

...Jason Gladstone Abstract This essay argues that what most characterizes the late twentieth century is not, as is often assumed, the threat posed to the human by technology but rather that imposed by technology’s failure. The essay does so by tracking the development of a postwar literalism...

... Univ. Press . 2014 . xiv , 224 pp. Cloth, $99.00 ; paper, $29.95 . Virtual Modernism: Writing and Technology in the Progressive Era . By Biers Katherine . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2013 . 280 pp. Cloth, $75.00 ; paper, $25.00 . © 2015 by Duke University Press...

... capacity of a variety of prephotographic visual technologies, including portraiture, woodcuts, stereotypes, and the camera obscura. Douglass and Jacobs lived in the midst of a photographic revolution. Douglass repeatedly commented on photographic technology and celebrated its democratic potential. But both...

... imperial endeavors. Approaching the novels utilizing Franco Moretti's “distant reading” approach demonstrates precisely how the works' expansionist themes developed as newer, more powerful martial and transportation technologies were imagined by Senarens between 1880 and 1895. The recurring narrative...

...Stephanie S. Turner Duke University Press 2002 Stephanie S. Jurassic Park Technology in the Bioinformatics Turner Economy: How Cloning Narratives Negotiate the Telos of DNA The problem was that all known dinosaurs were fossils...

... labor, technologically concretized, finds its demand for justice depicted through the retelling of an industrial disaster. Focusing on technology’s both literal and figural sources of social transmission, Rukeyser’s poem redirects our attention from assured Communist redemption toward more transitional...

... ; paper, $34.95 ; e-book, $34.95 . Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 In Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures , Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora (2019) observe that under capitalism transnational media and corporate promotional accounts...

... Book Reviews 871 Portraying the Lady: Technologies of Gender in the Short Stories of Henry James. By Donatella Izzo. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2001. viii, 312 pp. $60.00. Henry James...

...Brian Hochman Hochman's essay uses the work of George Washington Cable to examine a far-reaching set of debates about media technology, auditory perception, and cultural difference that emerged during the 1880s and 1890s. The first half focuses on Cable's classic dialect novel The Grandissimes...