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The Immaterial Book: Reading and Romance in Early Modern England
Sarah Wall-Randell
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Description for The Immaterial Book: Reading and Romance in Early Modern England
Hardcover. 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 Num Pages: 194 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBD; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
In romances—Renaissance England’s version of the fantasy novel—characters often discover books that turn out to be magical or prophetic, and to offer insights into their readers’ selves. The Immaterial Book examines scenes of reading in important romance texts across genres: Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and The Tempest, Wroth’s Urania, and Cervantes’ Don Quixote. It offers a response to “material book studies” by calling for a new focus on imaginary or “immaterial” books and argues that early modern romance authors, rather than replicating contemporary reading practices within their texts, are reviving ancient and medieval ideas of the book as a ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
194
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472118779
SKU
V9780472118779
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Ref
99-15
About Sarah Wall-Randell
Sarah Wall-Randell is Assistant Professor of English, Wellesley College.
Reviews for The Immaterial Book: Reading and Romance in Early Modern England
"At a time when the word material turns up insistently in book and article titles, it is unusual — and refreshing — to find a study of the ‘immaterial.' ... Real books inspire the creation of imaginary books. In pursuing this subject, Wall-Randell ably complements the scholarship of Elizabeth Eisenstein and her followers, who have documented the powerful effects of ... Read more