Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature

Jessica (Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Wolfe

Cambridge University Press, 2009

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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.

ISBN-13
9780521123761
ISBN-10
0521123763
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
Publication date
2009-12-17
Pages
320
Dimensions
152x314x21
Weight
488