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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814193003321

Autore

Wall-Randell Sarah

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : The University of Michigan Press, , [2013]

ISBN

0-472-02914-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Disciplina

809/.9339

Soggetti

Books and reading in literature

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Romances, English - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

"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.