Reading by Design : : The Visual Interfaces of the English Renaissance Book / / Pauline Reid.
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 manuscrip...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One. 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
- Chapter Two. Memory Machines or Ephemera? Early Modern Annotated Almanacs, Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calender, and the Problem of Recollection
- Chapter Three. Devising the Page: Poly-olbion's Troubled Boundaries
- Chapter Four. Image and Illusion in Francis Quarles's Emblems and Pamphlets: Duplication, Duality, Duplicity
- Chapter Five. Dead Lambs, False Miracles, and "Taintured Nests": The Crisis of Visual Ecologies in Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI
- Conclusion: Mediated Vision
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index