Symbolic Caxton : literary culture and print capitalism /
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| Author / Creator: | Kuskin, William. |
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| Imprint: | Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008. |
| Description: | xxvi, 390 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/6684520 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Works Cited in Short Form
- Introduction: A Theory of Literary Reproduction
- Part I. Capital and Literary Form
- Chapter 1. Affixing Value: The Bibliography of Material Culture
- Book Buying: Consumption in the (Post) modern Library
- Book Selling: Production in Caxton's Chamber
- The Printer's Mark: The Bibliography of Material Culture
- Chapter 2. Reading Caxton: Capital and the Alchemical Logic of the Press
- The Fourmes of Commerce
- The Besynes of Patronage
- Posting Bills: Multiplying the Signs of Capital
- Part II. Authorship and the Chaucerian Inheritance
- Chapter 3. Chaucerian Inheritances: The Transformation of Lancastrian Literary Culture into the English Canon
- Beginning at the End: Chaucer's Retraction and the Cycle of Reproduction
- Profitable Impressions: Literary Reproduction as Social Reproduction
- Caxton's 1483 Prologue to Chaucer and the History of the Book
- Chapter 4. Uninhabitable Chaucer: Patronage and the Commerce in the Self
- Anthony Woodville and the Problem with Patronage
- Christine de Pizan and the Demand for Gender
- Patronage as Mass Production
- Part III. Print and Social Organization
- Chapter 5. Caxton's Worthies Series: Fifteenth-Century Imagined Communities
- The Structure of Spontaneity
- The Production of Literary Authority
- Reading the Subject of Desire
- Chapter 6. Vernacular Humanism: Fifteenth-Century Self-Fashioning and the State-Crowned Laureates
- Dido Overdetermined
- The Laureate System
- Epilogue The Archival Imagination (or What Goodes Has to Say)
- Notes
- Index
