The Immaterial Book : Reading and Romance in Early Modern England.
Title:
The Immaterial Book : Reading and Romance in Early Modern England.
Author:
Wall-Randell, Sarah.
ISBN:
9780472029143
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (194 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- 1. "Antiquities, Which No Body Can Know" : Spenser's Books and the Romance of the Past -- 2. Dreaming of the Book in Cymbeline -- 3. "Volumes That I Prize" : The Spaces of the Book and the Mind in The Tempest -- 4. "A Booke Layd By, New Lookt On" : The Romance of Reading in Urania and Don Quixote -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
An examination of representations of books and reading in 16th- and 17th-century English romance texts and the myths and metaphors these representations create, perpetuate, and reimagine.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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