TY - BOOK AU - Reid,Pauline TI - Reading by design: the visual interfaces of the English Renaissance book SN - 9781487511623 AV - Z1003.5.G7 R45 2019 U1 - 002.094209/031 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Toronto, Buffalo, London PB - University of Toronto Press KW - Books and reading KW - England KW - History KW - 16th century KW - 17th century KW - Early printed books KW - Literature publishing KW - Visual perception KW - English literature KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - History and criticism KW - Livres et lecture KW - Angleterre KW - Histoire KW - 16e siècle KW - 17e siècle KW - Livres anciens KW - Littérature KW - Édition KW - Perception visuelle KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - Publishing KW - bisacsh KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - Books & Reading KW - fast KW - Early modern KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; 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 VIConclusion: Mediated Vision; Notes; Bibliography; Index N2 - "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 vision and perception was fundamentally called into question. Investigating this crisis of perception, Pauline Reid argues that the visual crisis that suffuses early modern English thought also imbricates sixteenth and seventeenth century print materials. These vision troubles in turn influenced how early modern books and readers interacted. Platonic, Aristotelian, and empirical models of sight vied with one another in a culture where vision had a tenuous relationship to external reality. Through situating early modern books' design elements, such as woodcuts, engravings, page borders, and layouts, as important rhetorical components of the text, Reading by Design articulates how the early modern book responded to epistemological crises of perception and competing theories of sight."-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2097940 ER -