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William Kuskin (Ed.) - Caxton's Trace: Studies in the History of English Printing - 9780268033088 - V9780268033088
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Caxton's Trace: Studies in the History of English Printing

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Description for Caxton's Trace: Studies in the History of English Printing Hardcover. Consists of ten essays that explore early English culture, from Caxton's introduction of the press, through questions of audience, and genre, to the fascination with Caxton's books. This book suggests that the first century of print production is defined less by transition or break, than by a dynamic transformation in literary production itself. Editor(s): Kuskin, William. Num Pages: 368 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBB; DSBD; TDPP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 771.

William Caxton (ca. 1421–1492) and the printers who immediately followed him, Wynkyn de Worde and Richard Pynson, dominated early English printing. Surprisingly, their ideological impact on English literary history—their transformation of a textual economy based in manuscript production, their strategic development of authorship, their collation of English literature—remains largely unrecognized, overshadowed by the work of later sixteenth-century printers and folded into the general transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. This collection, the first such work on Caxton and his contemporaries, consists of ten original essays that explore early English culture, from Caxton's introduction of the press, through questions ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268033088
SKU
V9780268033088
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Ref
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About William Kuskin (Ed.)
William Kuskin is associate professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi. Contributors: William Kuskin, David R. Carlson, Mark Addison Amos, Jennifer R. Goodman, A. E. B. Coldiron, Alexandra Gillespie, William N. West, Patricia Clare Ingham, Tim William Machan, and Seth Lerer.

Reviews for Caxton's Trace: Studies in the History of English Printing
"This is a significant contribution to the history of the book. It examines the reified idea of the separation between the medieval and early modern period in a sophisticated and illuminating way. The essays engage the problematics of periodization while also interrogating the twin notions that print somehow mystically transformed the Middle Ages into modernity and that the fifteenth century ... Read more

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