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- catalog abstract ""This book explores how machinery and the practice of mechanics participate in the intellectual culture of Renaissance humanism. 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. 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13295846.
- catalog coverage "England Intellectual life 16th century.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""This book explores how machinery and the practice of mechanics participate in the intellectual culture of Renaissance humanism. 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. 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-300) and index.".
- catalog description "Subtle devices: Renaissance humanism and its machinery -- Automatopoesis: machinery and courtliness in Renaissance Urbino -- Artificial motions: machinery, courtliness, and discipline in Renaissance England -- Inanimate ambassadors: the mechanics and politics of mediation -- The polymechany of Gabriel Harvey -- Homer in a nutshell: George Chapman and the mechanics of perspicuity -- Inhumanism: Spenser's iron man.".
- catalog extent "xi, 305 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521831873".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "England Intellectual life 16th century.".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog subject "820.9/384 22".
- catalog subject "English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Humanism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Humanists England.".
- catalog subject "Machinery in literature.".
- catalog subject "Mechanics in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR428.H8 W65 2004".
- catalog subject "Renaissance England.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Subtle devices: Renaissance humanism and its machinery -- Automatopoesis: machinery and courtliness in Renaissance Urbino -- Artificial motions: machinery, courtliness, and discipline in Renaissance England -- Inanimate ambassadors: the mechanics and politics of mediation -- The polymechany of Gabriel Harvey -- Homer in a nutshell: George Chapman and the mechanics of perspicuity -- Inhumanism: Spenser's iron man.".
- catalog title "Humanism, machinery, and Renaissance literature / Jessica Wolfe.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".