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Author:

Wall-Randell, Sarah.

Title:

The immaterial book : reading and romance in early modern England / Sarah Wall-Randell.

Publisher:

The University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

viii, 183 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Books and reading in literature.
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Romances, English--History and criticism.
Books and reading.
English literature--Early modern.
Literature.
Romances, English.
Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616.--Cymbeline.
Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616.--The tempest.
Spenser, Edmund,--1552-1599.--The faerie queene.
Buch.
Englisch.
Lesen.
Literatur.
1500 - 1700
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-177) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0472118773 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780472118779 (cloth : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)819717660

LCCN:

2013020517

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)