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Author:

Wolfe, Jessica.

Title:

Humanism, machinery, and Renaissance literature / Jessica Wolfe.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

xi, 305 p. : ill. ; c 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Humanism in literature.
Machinery in literature.
Mechanics in literature.
Renaissance--England.
Humanists--England.
England--Intellectual life--16th century.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D., Stanford University). Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-300) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780521831871
0521831873

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52559181

LCCN:

2003055396

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)