Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-279) and index.

On technology and humanity / Carol Colatrella -- Critical contexts. Industrial Revolution, empire, and the novel / Narin Hassan ; Reading technology and literature in the twentieth century / Melissa M. Littlefield and Michael Black ; The Model T and the Roaring Twenties: the automobile, social change, and cultural critique in American literature / Tanfer Emin Tunc ; "An intent to communicate": technology and digital culture in The crying of lot 49 / Madeline Monson-Rosen -- Critical readings. Robots, moving statues, and automata in ancient tales and history / Kevin LaGrandeur ; The technologist in classical mythology and American literature / Inger H. Dalsgaard ; "Now let us meet the world": being, appearing, and seeing Hawthorne's The house of the seven gables / Abigail Glogower ; Opposing perspectives: technology in modernist literature / Melissa Dinsman ; Inventions in literature: time travel in the works of H. G. Wells, Mark Twain, and Douglas Adams / Claire Menck ; Literary models of technological mediation: Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea and Julio Cortazar's "The treasure of youth" / Luis O. Arata ; "Art as technique": technology, the avant-gardes, and the birth of the cinema / Annie van den Oever ; Humanity and technology at war / Robert Blaskiewicz ; Android dreams and human imaginings / Aaron Barlow ; Death of the digital messiah: increased complexity in virtual narratives / Mike Griffith ; Ghosts and girls in the machine: technology and the human in Japanese visual popular culture / Jaime Weida -- Resources. Additional works on technology and humanity ; General bibliography.