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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.

Title The immaterial book : reading and romance in early modern England / Sarah Wall-Randell.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press
Creation Date [2013]
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-177) and index.
English
Content "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.
Extent 1 online resource (194 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010711586605171
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