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Author Wolfe, Jessica.

Title Humanism, machinery, and Renaissance literature / Jessica Wolfe.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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 Moore Stacks  PR428.H8 W65 2004    Available  ---
Description xi, 305 pages : illustrations ; c 24 cm
Note Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D., Stanford University).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century.
England.
Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Humanism in literature.
Humanism in literature.
Machinery in literature.
Machinery in literature.
Mechanics in literature.
Mechanics in literature.
Renaissance -- England.
Renaissance.
Humanists -- England.
Humanists.
ISBN 0521831873