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Author:

Yates, Julian. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002034599

Title:

Error, misuse, failure : object lessons from the English Renaissance / Julian Yates.

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

xx, 250 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Subject:

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Material culture in literature.
Didactic literature, English--History and criticism.
Literature and technology--England--History.
Literature and society--England--History.
Material culture--England--History.
Failure (Psychology) in literature.
Social change in literature.
Renaissance--England.
Error in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-242) and index.

Contents:

Foundations -- Rewriting the Renaissance myth -- "The thinge itselfe" : the portrait miniature, the relic, and the face -- Of plumbing and print -- Under the sign of (A)Jax; or, The smell of history -- Thomas Nashe and the mutable mobility of print -- Networks of the hidden -- Wrinkles in time and space : technology versus history in the priest-hole -- Martyrs and ghosts in 1606.

ISBN:

9780816639625
0816639620

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50234956

LCCN:

2002010607

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)