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Auteur(s) : Razzall, Lucy
Titre(s) : Boxes and books in early modern England [Texte imprimé] : materiality, metaphor, containment / Lucy Razzall
Publication : Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-256 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 231-251. Index
In early modern England, boxes furnished minds as readily as they furnished rooms,
shaping ideas about the challenges of interpretation, and negotiations of the book
as text and material object. Engaging with recent work on material culture and the
history of the book, Lucy Razzall weaves together close readings of texts and objects,
from wills, plays, sermons and religious polemic, to chests, book-bindings, reliquaries
and coffins. She demonstrates how the material and imaginative possibilities of the
box were dynamically connected in post-Reformation England, structuring modes of thought.
These early modern responses to materiality offer ways in which the discipline of
book history might reframe its analysis of the material text. In tracing the early
modern significance of the box as matter and metaphor, this book reveals the origins
of some of the enduring habits of thought with which we still respond to people, texts
and things--back cover
Sujet(s) : Livres -- Étuis -- Angleterre (GB) -- 1500-1800
Livres -- Aspect symbolique -- Angleterre (GB) -- 1500-1800
Coffres -- Angleterre (GB) -- 1500-1800
Coffres -- Dans la littérature
Littérature anglaise -- Thèmes, motifs
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-1-108-83133-8 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46856759r
Notice n° :
FRBNF46856759
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction ; 1. Chests of the Mind in Early Modern England ; 2. The Renaissance
of the Box: Metaphors of Interpretation ; 3. The Word in a Box: Reforming the Book
; 4. How to Read a Reliquary ; 5. 'Because this box we know': Embodying the Box
; Conclusion.
