Subtle Devices : Machinery and the Limits of Humanism, 1580-1625

Author / Editor
Wolfe, Jessica Lynn.

Title
Subtle Devices : Machinery and the Limits of Humanism, 1580-1625

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 3586A, 2001.

Description
The Renaissance elicited mixed responses to machinery. Wolfe discusses reactions to Italian thought by Gabriel Harvey (including the effect on his reading of Chaucer), George Chapman, and Edmund Spenser.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.