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How the World Became a Book in Shakespeare's England by Jonathan P. Lamb is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is How the World Became a Book in Shakespeare's England about?
Human beings build their worlds using metaphors. Just as computer technology has inaugurated a massive metaphorical transformation in the present era, in which we can 'reboot' social causes or 'program' human behaviour, books spawned new metaphorical worlds in the newly print-savvy early modern England. Pamphleteers appealed to books to stage political attacks, preachers formulated theological claims using metaphors of page and binding, and scientists claimed to leaf through the 'Book of Nature'
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jonathan P. Lamb
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2025
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781009460415
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Literary Criticism, European History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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