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Imagining the book in early modern England: The romance of reading in the age of print (Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, Mary, Lady Wroth).

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Title/Author:	Imagining the book in early modern England: The romance of reading in the age of print (Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, Mary, Lady Wroth).
Author:	Wall-Randell, Sarah Elizabeth.
Description:	268 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Marjorie Garber; Stephen Greenblatt; Barbara Lewalski.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 4035.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-11A.
Subject:	Literature, English.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3194473
ISBN:	9780542392740

Imagining the book in early modern England: The romance of reading in the age of print (Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, Mary, Lady Wroth).
Wall-Randell, Sarah Elizabeth.

Imagining the book in early modern England: The romance of reading in the age of print (Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, Mary, Lady Wroth). - 268 p.

Advisers: Marjorie Garber; Stephen Greenblatt; Barbara Lewalski.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2005.

Recent scholarship has suggested that as literacy spread in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, it did so as a utilitarian skill, and that as printed books became more present in everyday life, they were valued chiefly because of their practical advantages over manuscript. This study argues that such a narrative of functionality is not the whole story that English Renaissance culture tells itself, in its literature, about books and reading. Before the wider distribution of print, the book was as much an idea, an emblem, as an object; books provided an imaginative framework for the abstract or transcendent, as when medieval writers speak of the Book of Life, the Book of Nature, or the encyclopedic liber universalis. As actual books move into the metaphorical spaces of these figures, I contend, they become potent intersections of the physical object and the metaphysical imaginary. Literary and dramatic representations of books are attended by an aura of mystery and wonder finally irreducible to the material circumstances of production and consumption on which previous studies have concentrated.

ISBN: 9780542392740Subjects--Topical Terms:

212435
Literature, English.

Imagining the book in early modern England: The romance of reading in the age of print (Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, Mary, Lady Wroth).
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520 # $a Surveying romance and drama, "Imagining the Book in Early Modern England" examines supernatural books whose spectacular signification exceeds their material presence: the British chronicle in Book II of Spenser's Faerie Queene, being written even as it is read; the encyclopedic magic book in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus; Prospero's enigmatic book in Shakespeare's Tempest; the prophetic book Jupiter gives Posthumus in Shakespeare's Cymbeline; the copy of Don Quixote that appears in Don Quixote; the enchanted book of the heroine's life in Wroth's Urania. These "magic" books are strongly expressed examples of what every book essentially is: an object with more dimensions than its physical ones, a portable possession that contains potentially infinite space. Importantly, since the mind too is a small space that can contain vastnesses of thought and image, the book can serve as a figure for consciousness, and reading one's own story as a metaphor for thinking about oneself. Ultimately, it is not because of their material reality, but because of their immaterial potential for imaginative projection, that books are such useful objects in early modern England.
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