Reading by design : the visual interfaces of the English Renaissance book /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Reid, Pauline, 1985- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Subjects:
1500-1700
Books and reading > England > History > 16th century.
Books and reading > England > History > 17th century.
Early printed books > England > 16th century.
Early printed books > England > 17th century.
Literature publishing > England > 16th century.
Literature publishing > England > 17th century.
Visual perception > History > 16th century.
Visual perception > History > 17th century.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Livres et lecture > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Livres et lecture > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Livres anciens > Angleterre > 16e siècle.
Livres anciens > Angleterre > 17e siècle.
Littérature > Édition > Angleterre > 16e siècle.
Littérature > Édition > Angleterre > 17e siècle.
Perception visuelle > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Perception visuelle > Histoire > 17e siècle.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Publishing.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.
Books and reading.
Early printed books.
English literature > Early modern.
Literature publishing.
Visual perception.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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