Engines of the Imagination: Renaissance Culture and the Rise of the Machine

ISBN-13: 9780415350617 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 424 str.

Jonatha Sawday

Opis

Challenging the artificial divide between technological studies and cultural history, this title traces the story of the imaginative encounter with machines and machinery in the European Renaissance.

Spis treści

Contents Contents i Epigraphs ii List of Plates iv Preface and Acknowledgments vii

1. The Machine in the Margins 1
2. Philosophy, Power and Politics in Renaissance Technology 36
3. The Turn of the Screw: Machines, Books, and Bodies 91
4. Women and Wheels: Gender and the Machine in the Renaissance 172
5. ‘Nature Wrought:’ Artifice, Illusion, and Magical Mechanics 226
6. Reasoning Engines: The Instrumental Imagination in the 293
Seventeenth Century
7. Chapter Seven: Milton and the Engine 372
8. The Machine Stops 427

Notes Index

O autorze

Jonathan Sawday is Professor of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He has taught at universities in Britain, Ireland, and the United States. As well as writing many articles and essays on Renaissance literature and culture, he is the author of the The Body Emblazoned (Routledge, 1995) and co-editor (with Tom Healy) of Literature and the English Civil War (1990), and (with Neil Rhodes) The Renaissance Computer (Routledge, 2000).