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Author Sawday, Jonathan

Title Engines of the Imagination : Renaissance culture and the rise of the machine
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (425 pages)
Contents BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; 1 THE RENAISSANCE MACHINE AND ITS DISCONTENTS; 2 PHILOSOPHY, POWER, AND POLITICS IN RENAISSANCE TECHNOLOGY; 3 THE TURN OF THE SCREW: Machines, books, and bodies; 4 WOMEN AND WHEELS: Gender and the machine in the Renaissance; 5 'NATURE WROUGHT': Artifice, illusion, and magical mechanics; 6 REASONING ENGINES: The instrumental imagination in the seventeenth century; 7 MILTON AND THE ENGINE; 8 THE MACHINE STOPS; NOTES; INDEX
Summary Challenging the artificial divide between technological studies and cultural history, Engines of the Imagination traces the story of the imaginative encounter with machines and machinery in the European Renaissance
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Subject Machinery.
Mechanical engineering.
Engineering.
European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism
Industrialization in literature.
Literature and technology -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
Literature and technology -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
Machinery in literature.
Renaissance.
machinery.
mechanical engineering.
engineering.
Renaissance.
Literature and technology
Intellectual life
Engineering
European literature -- Renaissance
Industrialization in literature
Machinery
Machinery in literature
Mechanical engineering
Renaissance
SUBJECT Europe -- Intellectual life -- 16th century
Subject Europe
Genre/Form History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203696156
0203696158
1281063258
9781281063250