Reading by design : the visual interfaces of the English Renaissance book / Pauline Reid.
Reading by design : the visual interfaces of the English Renaissance book / Pauline Reid.
Reading by design : the visual interfaces of the English Renaissance book / Pauline Reid.
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
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G 2019/4318
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Language
English
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Physical content
xv, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction -- 1. 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' -- 2. Memory-machines or ephemera? : Early Modern annotated almanacs, Edmund Spenser's 'Shepheardes Calender', and the pr...
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Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Place of Publication
Ontario
Date Published
[2019]
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Summary
"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 manuscript and oral rhetoric, the relationship between visi...
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Reading by design : the visual interfaces of the English Renaissance book / Pauline Reid.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-278) and index.
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©2019
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G 2019/4318
Record Identifier
74VKVloVM88b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVloVM88b
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ISBN
9781487500696 (hardcover)
1487500696 (hardcover)
DDC
002.094209031
MMS ID
991024263315502626
