Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature (Paperback)

Jessica Wolfe

ISBN 10: 0521123763 / ISBN 13: 9780521123761

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009

Paperback. This book explores how machinery and the practice of mechanics participate in the intellectual culture of Renaissance humanism. Before the emergence of the concept of technology, sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century writers recognised the applicability of mechanical practices and objects to some of their most urgent moral, aesthetic, and political questions. The construction, use, and representation of devices including clocks, scientific instruments, stage machinery, and war engines not only reflect but also actively reshape how Renaissance writers define and justify artifice and instrumentality - the reliance upon instruments, mechanical or otherwise, to achieve a particular end. Harnessing the discipline of mechanics to their literary and philosophical concerns, scholars and poets including Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, George Chapman, and Gabriel Harvey look to machinery to ponder and dispute all manner of instrumental means, from rhetoric and pedagogy to diplomacy and courtly dissimulation. This book explores how mechanics participate 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 look to machinery to ponder all manner of instrumental means, from rhetoric and pedagogy to diplomacy and courtly dissimulation. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780521123761

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This book explores how mechanics participate in the intellectual culture of Renaissance humanism.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Jessica Wolfe is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

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Titel: Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance ...
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Einband: Paperback
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