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Contesting theories of print as a monologic, uniform, and unifying form, Reading by Design investigates 16th and 17th century print as a uniquely multi-sensory and interactive medium.

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 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 Problem of Recollection 3. Devising the Page: Poly-olbion’s Troubled Boundaries 4. Image and Illusion in Francis Quarles’s Emblems and Pamphlets: Duplication, Duality, Duplicity 5. Dead Lambs, False Miracles, and “Taintured Nests”: The Crisis of Visual Ecologies in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI Conclusion: Mediated Vision Notes Bibliography Index

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      Publisher University of Toronto Press
      Published 29 April 2019
      ISBN-13 9781487500696
      978-1487500696
      ISBN-10 1487500696
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Contesting theories of print as a monologic, uniform, and unifying form, Reading by Design investigates 16th and 17th century print as a uniquely multi-sensory and interactive medium.

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 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 Problem of Recollection 3. Devising the Page: Poly-olbion’s Troubled Boundaries 4. Image and Illusion in Francis Quarles’s Emblems and Pamphlets: Duplication, Duality, Duplicity 5. Dead Lambs, False Miracles, and “Taintured Nests”: The Crisis of Visual Ecologies in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI Conclusion: Mediated Vision Notes Bibliography Index

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