{"product_id":"humanism-machinery-and-renaissance-literature-9780521123761","title":"Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jessica Wolfe\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Remote Sensing \u0026amp; Geographic Information Systems\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47608681398423,"sku":"9780521123761","price":5627.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780521123761.webp?v=1775053814","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/humanism-machinery-and-renaissance-literature-9780521123761","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}