Humanism Machinery And Renaissance Literature

Author : Jessica Wolfe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521831873

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Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature by Jessica Wolfe Pdf

This book explores how machinery and the practice of mechanics participate in the intellectual culture of Renaissance humanism. 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. The construction, use, and representation of devices including clocks, scientific instruments, stage machinery, and war engines not only reflect but also actively reshape how Renaissance writers define and justify artifice and instrumentality - the reliance upon instruments, mechanical or otherwise, to achieve a particular end. Harnessing the discipline of mechanics to their literary and philosophical concerns, scholars and poets including Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, George Chapman, and Gabriel Harvey look to machinery to ponder and dispute all manner of instrumental means, from rhetoric and pedagogy to diplomacy and courtly dissimulation.

Author : Jill Kraye
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0521436249

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The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism by Jill Kraye Pdf

From the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, humanism played a key role in European culture. Beginning as a movement based on the recovery, interpretation and imitation of ancient Greek and Roman texts and the archaeological study of the physical remains of antiquity, humanism turned into a dynamic cultural programme, influencing almost every facet of Renaissance intellectual life. The fourteen essays in this 1996 volume deal with all aspects of the movement, from language learning to the development of science, from the effect of humanism on biblical study to its influence on art, from its Italian origins to its manifestations in the literature of More, Sidney and Shakespeare. A detailed biographical index, and a guide to further reading, are provided. Overall, The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism provides a comprehensive introduction to a major movement in the culture of early modern Europe.

Author : Wendy Beth Hyman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317040804

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The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature by Wendy Beth Hyman Pdf

The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature features original essays exploring the automaton-from animated statue to anthropomorphized machine-in the poetry, prose, and drama of England in the 16th and 17th centuries. Addressing the history and significance of the living machine in early modern literature, the collection places literary automata of the period within their larger aesthetic, historical, philosophical, and scientific contexts. While no single theory or perspective conscribes the volume, taken as a whole the collection helps correct an assumption that frequently emerges from a post-Enlightenment perspective: that these animated beings are by definition exemplars of the new science, or that they point necessarily to man's triumphant relationship to technology. On the contrary, automata in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries seem only partly and sporadically to function as embodiments of an emerging mechanistic or materialist worldview. Renaissance automata were just as likely not to confirm for viewers a hypothesis about the man-machine. Instead, these essays show, automata were often a source of wonder, suggestive of magic, proof of the uncannily animating effect of poetry-indeed, just as likely to unsettle the divide between man and divinity as that between man and matter.

Author : Virginia Lee Strain
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781474416306

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Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature by Virginia Lee Strain Pdf

This book investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the seventeenth century. The late-Elizabethan and early-Jacobean surge in the policies and enforcement of the reformation of manners has been well-documented. What has gone unnoticed, however, is the degree to which the law itself was the focus of reform for legislators, the judiciary, preachers, and writers alike. While the majority of law and literature studies characterize the law as a force of coercion and subjugation, this book instead treats in greater depth the law's own vulnerability, both to corruption and to correction. In readings of Spenser's 'Faerie Queene', the 'Gesta Grayorum', Donne's 'Satyre V', and Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' and 'The Winter's Tale', Strain argues that the terms and techniques of legal reform provided modes of analysis through which legal authorities and literary writers alike imagined and evaluated form and character. Reevaluates canonical writers in light of developments in legal historical research, bringing an interdisciplinary perspective to works. Collects an extensive variety of legal, political, and literary sources to reconstruct the discourse on early modern legal reform, providing an introduction to a topic that is currently underrepresented in early modern legal cultural studiesAnalyses the laws own vulnerability to individual agency.

Author : Zachary Sayre Schiffman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000087798579

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Humanism and the Renaissance by Zachary Sayre Schiffman Pdf

A volume in the "Problems in European Civilization" series, this book features a collection of secondary source essays focusing on aspects of the Renaissance and humanist beliefs. The proven PEC format features key scholarship, chapter and essay introductions, and extensive, up-to-date suggestions for further reading. All selections in the text are edited for both content and length.

Author : Andrew Mousley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748691241

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Re-Humanising Shakespeare by Andrew Mousley Pdf

Revised throughout, the book includes: a new introduction which focuses attention on what is specific to literature's treatment of the human (as epitomised by Shakespeare); a section drawing on new work on literary genres as different forms of engagement

Author : Kevin Curran
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474448109

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Renaissance Personhood by Kevin Curran Pdf

Unfolding as a series of materially oriented studies ranging from chairs, machines and doors to trees, animals and food, this book retells the story of Renaissance personhood as one of material relations and embodied experience, rather than of emergent notions of individuality and freedom.

Author : Michael Hattaway
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1267 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405187626

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A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture by Michael Hattaway Pdf

In this revised and greatly expanded edition of the Companion, 80 scholars come together to offer an original and far-reaching assessment of English Renaissance literature and culture. A new edition of the best-selling Companion to English Renaissance Literature, revised and updated, with 22 new essays and 19 new illustrations Contributions from some 80 scholars including Judith H. Anderson, Patrick Collinson, Alison Findlay, Germaine Greer, Malcolm Jones, Arthur Kinney, James Knowles, Arthur Marotti, Robert Miola and Greg Walker Unrivalled in scope and its exploration of unfamiliar literary and cultural territories the Companion offers new readings of both ‘literary’ and ‘non-literary’ texts Features essays discussing material culture, sectarian writing, the history of the body, theatre both in and outside the playhouses, law, gardens, and ecology in early modern England Orientates the beginning student, while providing advanced students and faculty with new directions for their research All of the essays from the first edition, along with the recommendations for further reading, have been reworked or updated

Author : Sheila J. Nayar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319968995

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Renaissance Responses to Technological Change by Sheila J. Nayar Pdf

This book foregrounds the pressures that three transformative technologies in the long sixteenth century—the printing press, gunpowder, and the magnetic compass—placed on long-held literary practices, as well as on cultural and social structures. Sheila J. Nayar disinters the clash between humanist drives and print culture; places the rise of gunpowder warfare beside the equivalent rise in chivalric romance; and illustrates fraught attempts by humanists to hold on to classicist traditions in the face of seismic changes in navigation. Lively and engaging, this study illuminates not only how literature responded to radical technological changes, but also how literature was sometimes forced, through unanticipated destabilizations, to reimagine itself. By tracing the early modern human’s inter-animation with print, powder, and compass, Nayar exposes how these technologies assisted in producing new ways of seeing, knowing, and being in the world.

Author : Kent Cartwright
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1444317229

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A Companion to Tudor Literature by Kent Cartwright Pdf

A Companion to Tudor Literature presents a collection of thirty-one newly commissioned essays focusing on English literature and culture from the reign of Henry VII in 1485 to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. Presents students with a valuable historical and cultural context to the period Discusses key texts and representative subjects, and explores issues including international influences, religious change, travel and New World discoveries, women’s writing, technological innovations, medievalism, print culture, and developments in music and in modes of seeing and reading

Author : M. Ord
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230614505

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Travel and Experience in Early Modern English Literature by M. Ord Pdf

This study considers how a range of prose texts register, and help to shape, the early modern cultural debate between theoretical and experiential forms of knowledge as centered on the subject of travel.

Author : Robert Black
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Italy
ISBN : 041520593X

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Renaissance Thought by Robert Black Pdf

This is a fascinating collection of essays focusing on humanism and thought and other key aspects of Renaissance culture such as philology, political thought and scholastic and platonic philosophy. An essential read for all students of this era.

Author : Arielle Saiber
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780802039507

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Measured Words by Arielle Saiber Pdf

Author : Katarzyna Lecky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192571755

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Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in the English Renaissance by Katarzyna Lecky Pdf

Katarzyna Lecky explores how early modern British poets paid by the state adapted inclusive modes of nationhood charted by inexpensive, small-format maps. She explores chapbooks ('cheapbooks') by Edmund Spenser, Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson, William Davenant, and John Milton alongside the portable cartography circulating in the same retail print industry. Domestic pocket maps were designed for heavy use by a broad readership that included those on the fringes of literacy. The era's de facto laureates all banked their success as writers appealing to this burgeoning market share by drawing the nation as the property of the commonwealth rather than the Crown. This book investigates the accessible world of small-format cartography as it emerges in the texts of the poets raised in the expansive public sphere in which pocket maps flourished. It works at the intersections of space, place, and national identity to reveal the geographical imaginary shaping the flourishing business of cheap print. Its placement of poetic economies within mainstream systems of trade also demonstrates how cartography and poetry worked together to mobilize average consumers as political agents. This everyday form of geographic poiesis was also a strong platform for poets writing for monarchs and magistrates when their visions of the nation ran counter to the interests of the government.

Author : Lynn M. Maxwell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030169329

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Wax Impressions, Figures, and Forms in Early Modern Literature by Lynn M. Maxwell Pdf

This book explores the role of wax as an important conceptual material used to work out the nature and limits of the early modern human. By surveying the use of wax in early modern cultural spaces such as the stage and the artist’s studio and in literary and philosophical texts, including those by William Shakespeare, John Donne, René Descartes, Margaret Cavendish, and Edmund Spenser, this book shows that wax is a flexible material employed to define, explore, and problematize a wide variety of early modern relations including the relationship of man and God, man and woman, mind and the world, and man and machine.