Technology and the Early Modern Self

1. Introduction: A New Instrument
Adam Max Cohen

2. The Clockwork Self: Mechanical Clockwork and Early Modern Discipline
Adam Max Cohen

3. Confessions of a Man in Print: Cataloguing Erasmian Literary Ambition
Adam Max Cohen

4. Painted Words Put into the Press: The Forms and Functions of Ambition in Spenser’s The Shepheardes Calender
Adam Max Cohen

5. All Works and No Plays: Jonson’s 1616 Folio and the Redefinition of Dramatic Authorship
Adam Max Cohen

6. The Nimble Gunner and the Versatile Prince: Agility and the Early Modern Military Revolution
Adam Max Cohen

7. Perspectives on Perspective: The Philosophic Eye and the Prehistory of the Telescope and the Microscope
Adam Max Cohen

8. A New “Perspective Glass”: Telescopic Discoveries of Universal Uniformity
Adam Max Cohen

9. “To see a World in a Grain of Sand”: Microscopic Perspectives on Subvisible Wonders
Adam Max Cohen

10. Afterword: Reconsiderations and Prospects
Adam Max Cohen

Avainsanat: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural and Media Studies, general