Wall-Randell, Sarah.

The immaterial book : reading and romance in early modern England / Sarah Wall-Randell. - 1 online resource (194 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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.

9780472029143 (e-book)


Books and reading in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Romances, English--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PR428.B66 / W35 2013eb

809/.9339

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