Caxton's trace : studies in the history of English printing /
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| Imprint: | Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2006. |
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| Description: | xxvii, 394 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5880991 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Works Cited in Short Form
- Introduction: Following Caxton's Trace
- Part I. The Introduction of the Press: The Culture Machine
- Chapter 1. A Theory of the Early English Printing Firm: Jobbing, Book Publishing, and the Problem of Productive Capacity in Caxton's Work
- Chapter 2. Violent Hierarchies: Disciplining Women and Merchant Capitalists in The Book of the Knyght of the Towre
- Chapter 3. Caxton's Continent
- Part II. Manuscript and Print Strategies
- Chapter 4. Taking Advice from a Frenchwoman: Caxton, Pynson, and Christine de Pizan's Moral Proverbs
- Chapter 5. "Folowynge the trace of mayster Caxton": Some Histories of Fifteenth-Century Printed Books
- Part III. Language, Book, and Politics
- Chapter 6. "Onely imagined": Vernacular Community and the English Press
- Chapter 7. Old News: Caxton, de Worde, and the Invention of the Edition
- Chapter 8. Losing French: Vernacularity, Nation, and Caxton's English Statutes
- Chapter 9. Early Modern Middle English
- Part IV. Coda
- Chapter 10. Caxton in the Nineteenth Century
- Index