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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817044303321

Autore

Kuskin William

Titolo

Symbolic Caxton : literary culture and print capitalism / / William Kuskin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008

ISBN

0-268-08456-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (389 p.)

Classificazione

06.21

Disciplina

686.209

Soggetti

Printing - England - History - Origin and antecedents

Book industries and trade - England - History - To 1500

Books and reading - England - History - To 1500

England Civilization 1066-1485

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-367) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.