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.
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