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How the world became a book in Shakespeare's England / Jonathan P. Lamb, University of Kansas.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PE877 .L35 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lamb, Jonathan P., 1980- Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Style.
- English language.
- English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Terms and phrases.
- Metaphor.
- Books--Terminology.
- Books.
- metaphor.
- English language--Terms and phrases.
- English language--Style.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 306 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Just as computers have spawned new descriptive language today, then-new book technologies helped build previously unheard-of metaphorical worlds in early modern England. Drawing on thousands of examples, Jonathan P. Lamb shows how writers from Shakespeare to Cavendish used the language of books to shape their reality"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- An introduction is like a book
- The lexicon of print
- The metaphors we read with
- Book size and information management
- The bookish sensorium
- The world is a book
- When print was white.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781009460415
- 1009460412
- 9781009460408
- 1009460404
- OCLC:
- 1517294132
- Publisher Number:
- 90102355496
- CIPO000267887
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