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Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature

Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature

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Literary CriticismTechnology & Engineering

ISBN10: 0521831873
ISBN13: 9780521831871
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: May 3 2004
Pages: 318
Weight: 1.42
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.46 Depth: 9.26
Language: English
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.

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