| Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature Contributor(s): Wolfe, Jessica (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521123763 ISBN-13: 9780521123761 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $51.29 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.938 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6" W x 9" (1.04 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Before the emergence of the modern concept of technology, sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century writers recognized the applicability of mechanical practices and objects to some of their most urgent moral, aesthetic, and political questions. This book explores how machinery and the practice of mechanics participated in the intellectual culture of Renaissance humanism. Harnessing the discipline of mechanics to their literary and philosophical concerns, writers (including Francis Bacon and Edmund Spenser) turned to machinery to consider instrumental means in a diverse range that spans rhetoric and pedagogy to diplomacy and courtly dissimulation. |