Technology in Irish Literature and Culture explores how such significant media and communication technologies-typewriters, gramophones, print, radio, television, computers-have influenced literary practices and cultural production in Ireland, while also examining how technology has been embraced as a theme in Irish writing. Once a largely rural and agrarian society, contemporary Ireland has embraced the communicative, performative and consumptive habits of a culture utterly reliant on the digital. This text plumbs the origins of this present moment, examining the longer history of lrish literature's interactions with machines, both real and imagined, exploring how the transformative capacity of modern technology has been mediated throughout a diverse national canon. Comprising essays from some of the major figures of Irish literary and cultural studies, this volume offers a wide-ranging, comprehensive account of how Irish literature and culture have interacted with and been shaped by technologies old and new.

Book Information
ISBN 9781009182874
Author Margaret Kelleher
Format Hardback
Page Count 400
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press