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UNINA9910817044303321 |
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Autore |
Kuskin William |
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Titolo |
Symbolic Caxton : literary culture and print capitalism / / William Kuskin |
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Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (389 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-367) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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