{"product_id":"humanism-machinery-and-renaissance-literature-jessica-wolfe-9780521831871","title":"Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessica Wolfe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0521831873\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780521831871\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.46w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2005 pg. 1025","brand":"Jessica Wolfe","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46962022187263,"sku":"9780521831871","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d5404c70-21da-40e1-9e28-af496618e739.jpg?v=1750649079","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/humanism-machinery-and-renaissance-literature-jessica-wolfe-9780521831871","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}