Humanism, machinery, and renaissance literature
Auteur :
Wolfe, Jessica
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521123761
Date de publication :
17 déc. 2009
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,8 cm
Poids :
470 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.