Symbolic Caxton : literary culture and print capitalism /

In this fascinating read, William Kuskin argues that the development of print production is part of a larger social network involving the political, economic, and literary systems that produce the intangible constellations of identity and authority.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kuskin, William
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2008.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780268084561
0268084564
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Affixing value : the bibliography of material culture
  • Reading Caxton : capital and the alchemical logic of the press
  • Chaucerian inheritances : the transformation of Lancastrian literary culture into the English canon
  • Uninhabitable Chaucer : patronage and the commerce in the self
  • Caxton's Worthies series : fifteenth-century imagined communities
  • Vernacular humanism : fifteenth-century self-fashioning and the state-crowned laureates.