| Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature Contributor(s): Wolfe, Jessica (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521831873 ISBN-13: 9780521831871 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2004 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.938 |
| LCCN: 2003055396 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.46" W x 9.26" (1.42 lbs) 318 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |