{"product_id":"reading-by-design-the-visual-interfaces-of-the-english-renaissance-book-hardback-9781487500696","title":"Reading by Design; The Visual Interfaces of the English Renaissance Book (Hardback) 9781487500696","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eReading by Design\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Visual Interfaces of the English Renaissance Book\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePauline Reid (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487500696\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 April 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 55 colour illustrations\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16.8 x 2.5 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eRenaissance 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInvestigating this crisis of perception, Pauline Reid\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eargues 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\u0026amp;#x2019; design elements, such as woodcuts, engravings, page borders, and layouts, as important rhetorical components of the text, \u003ci\u003eReading by Design\u003c\/i\u003e articulates how the early modern book responded to epistemological crises of perception and competing theories of sight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Through a Looking-Glass: Rhetorical Vision and Imagination in William Caxton\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003cem\u003eMirrour and Description of the World\u003c\/em\u003e and Stephen Hawes\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003cem\u003ePastime of Pleasure\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Memory Machines or Ephemera? Early Modern Annotated Almanacs, Edmund Spenser\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003cem\u003eShepheardes Calender\u003c\/em\u003e, and the Problem of Recollection\u003cbr\u003e3. Devising the Page: \u003cem\u003ePoly-olbion\u003c\/em\u003e\u0026amp;#x2019;s Troubled Boundaries\u003cbr\u003e4. Image and Illusion in Francis Quarles\u0026amp;#x2019;s Emblems and Pamphlets: Duplication, Duality, Duplicity\u003cbr\u003e5. Dead Lambs, False Miracles, and \"Taintured Nests\": The Crisis of Visual Ecologies in Shakespeare\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003cem\u003e2 Henry VI\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Mediated Vision \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595448545560,"sku":"9781487500696","price":43.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/reading-by-design-the-visual-interfaces-of-the-english-renaissance-book-hardback-9781487500696","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}