Error, Misuse, Failure: Object Lessons From The English Renaissance As with "black boxes, " their success may be gauged by their relative invisibility -- and this was the indirect goal of the objects that Julian Yates considers here: the portrait miniature, the relic
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| Title | : | Error, Misuse, Failure: Object Lessons From The English Renaissance |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.55 (181 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0816639620 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2002-12-20 |
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Editorial : About the Author Julian is assistant professor of English at the University of Delaware.
If certain objects work well, no one notices them. As with "black boxes, " their success may be gauged by their relative invisibility -- and this was the indirect goal of the objects that Julian Yates considers here: the portrait miniature, the relic, the privy (flush toilet), the printed text, and the priest-hole (a secret hiding place for Catholic priests in Protestant England).Because each of these contrivances was prone to error, misuse, and sometimes catastrophic failure, they become in Yates's analysis an occasion for recasting the history of the English Renaissance as object lessons -- "knowing from the point of view of the known." It is through such lapses -- the texts and stories generated to explain away a relic that is too easily faked, a miniature that is too curiously real, the stench of a failing privy, a book that persistently sheds its pages, or the presence of so much "papist trash" in an ostensibly reformed England -- that Yates recovers the silent work of "things" in
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