Subtle engines : the poetics and politics of early modern machines

Early modern machine culture bridges a gap between mechanical and rhetorical forms of wit – between technē and poiēsis or the sciences and the arts – and as such constitutes an important repository for our understanding of the period’s polysemous forms of literary production. This thesis uncovers an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giersberg, Tullia
Other Authors: Crawforth, Hannah Jane ; Palmer, Patricia Ann
Published: King's College London (University of London) 2015
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.677146