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The immaterial book : reading and romance in early modern England / Sarah Wall-Randell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wall-Randell, Sarah.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books and reading in literature.
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Romances, English--History and criticism.
- Romances, English.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (194 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- "Antiquities, which no body can know": Spenser's books and the romance of the past
- Dreaming of the book in Cymbeline
- "Volumes that I prize": the spaces of the book and the mind in The Tempest
- "A booke layd by, new lookt on": the romance of reading in Urania and Don Quixote.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-177) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472029143
- 0472029142
- OCLC:
- 863157661
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