The immaterial book : reading and romance in early modern England
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書誌事項
The immaterial book : reading and romance in early modern England
University of Michigan Press, c2013
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Includes bibliographical references and index
収録内容
- "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
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In romances-Renaissance England's version of the fantasy novel-characters often discover books that turn out to be magical or prophetic, and to offer insights into their readers' selves. The Immaterial Book examines scenes of reading in important romance texts across genres: Spenser's Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Cymbeline and The Tempest, Wroth's Urania, and Cervantes' Don Quixote. It offers a response to "material book studies" by calling for a new focus on imaginary or "immaterial" books, and argues that early modern romance authors, rather than replicating contemporary reading practices within their texts, are reviving ancient and medieval ideas of the book as a conceptual framework, which they use to investigate urgent, new ideas about the self and the self-conscious mind.
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