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Jonathan P.Lamb

How the World Became a Book in Shakespeare's England

How the World Became a Book in Shakespeare's England

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Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 14 August 2025
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Just as computers have spawned new descriptive language today, then-new book technologies helped build previously unheard-of metaphorical worlds in early modern England. Drawing on thousands of examples, Jonathan P. Lamb shows how writers from Shakespeare to Cavendish used the language of books to shape their reality.

Weight: 630g
Dimension: 235 x 161 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781009460415

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