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Author:   Jonathan Sawday (University of Strathclyde, UK) ,  Neil Rhodes ,  Neil Rhodes ,  Jonathan Sawday
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9780415220644

ISBN 10:   0415220645
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   24 August 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The Silence of the Archive and the Noise of Cyberspace 2. Towards the Renaissance Computer 3. Ramus, Pedagogy and Technology 4. Textual Icons: Reading Early Modern Illustrations 5. The Early Modern Search Engine: Indices, Titlepages, Marginalia and Contents 6. National and International Knowledge: the Limits of the Histories of Nations 7. Arachne's Web: Intertextual Mythography and the Renaissance Actaeon 8. The Daughters of Memory: Thomas Heywood's Gunaikeion and the Female Computer 9. Pierre de La Primaudaye's French Academy: Growing Encyclopedic 10. Structure in the Wilderness Forms: Ideas and Things in Thomas Browne's Cabinets of Curiosity 11. Articulate Networks: the Self, the Book and the World

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a gift to the reader from a fine piece of humanities research. -Jeffrey Garrett, Northwestern University fascinating... Every essay here is valuable. -Charles Butler, Notes and Queries

a gift to the reader from a fine piece of humanities research. <br>-Jeffrey Garrett, Northwestern University <br> fascinating... Every essay here is valuable. <br>-Charles Butler, Notes and Queries <br>

Author Information

Neil Rhodes is Reader in English Literature at the university of St Andrews. His previous publications include The Power of Eloquence and English Renaissance Literature (1992), John Donne: Selected Prose (1987), and Elizabethan Grotesque (1980). Jonathan Sawday is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Strathclyde University. He is author of The Body Emblazoned (1995), and co-editor of Literature and the English Civil War.

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