Book Launch: Orrin Wang, TECHNO-MAGISM

Book Launch: Orrin Wang, TECHNO-MAGISM

Center for Literary and Comparative Studies | English Wednesday, February 2, 2022 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

In Techno-Magism: Media, Mediation, and the Cut of Romanticism (Fordham UP, 2022), Professor Orrin N. C. Wang "explores how British Romantic literature abuts and is organized around both print and non-print media. The book explores not only the print, pictorial art, and theater of early nineteenth-century England and Europe but also communicative technologies invented after the British Romantic period, such as photography, film, video, and digital screens. This proleptic abutting points to one way we can understand the implicit exceptionality wagered by reading Romanticism through media studies and media theory."