Technology and the Early Modern Self

Chapter 1 Introduction: A New Instrument

Chapter 2 The Clockwork Self: Mechanical Clockwork and Early Modern Discipline

Chapter 3 Confessions of a Man in Print: Cataloguing Erasmian Literary Ambition

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

Chapter 5 All Works and No Plays: Jonson’s 1616 Folio and the Redefinition of Dramatic Authorship

Chapter 7 Perspectives on Perspective: The Philosophic Eye and the Prehistory of the Telescope and the Microscope

Chapter 8 A New “Perspective Glass”: Telescopic Discoveries of Universal Uniformity

Chapter 9 “To see a World in a Grain of Sand”: Microscopic Perspectives on Subvisible Wonders

Chapter 10 Afterword: Reconsiderations and Prospects