Reading by Design : The Visual Interfaces of the English Renaissance Book /
"Renaissance readers perceived the print book as both a thing and a medium--a thing that could be broken or reassembled, and a visual medium that had the power to reflect, transform, or deceive. At the same historical moment that print books remediated the visual and material structures of manu...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
University of Toronto Press,
[2019]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Through a Looking-Glass: Rhetorical Vision and Imagination in William Caxton's Mirrour and Description of the World and Stephen Hawes's Pastime of Pleasure; 2 Memory Machines or Ephemera? Early Modern Annotated Almanacs, Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calender, and the Problem of Recollection; 3 Devising the Page: Poly-olbion 's Troubled Boundaries; 4 Image and Illusion in Francis Quarles's Emblems and Pamphlets: Duplication, Duality, Duplicity
- 5 Dead Lambs, False Miracles, and "Taintured Nests": The Crisis of Visual Ecologies in Shakespeare's 2 Henry VIConclusion: Mediated Vision; Notes; Bibliography; Index