Caxton's Trace

by Kuskin, William

• ISBN13: 9780268033088
• ISBN10: 0268033080
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-30
• Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Summary

Explores early English culture, from William Cazton's (c. 1421-1492) introduction of the press, through questions of audience, translation, politics, and genre, to the modern fascination with Caxton's books.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Contributors	xv
Works Cited in Short Form	xvii
Introduction: Following Caxton's Trace	1	(34)
WILLIAM KUSKIN
PART I The Introduction of the Press: The Culture Machine
CHAPTER ONE A Theory of the Early English Printing Firm	35	(34)
Jobbing, Book Publishing, and the Problem of Productive Capacity in Caxton's Work
DAVID R. CARLSON
CHAPTER TWO Violent Hierarchies	69	(32)
Disciplining Women and Merchant Capitalists in The Book of the Knyght of the Towre
MARK ADDISON AMOS
CHAPTER THREE Caxton's Continent	101	(26)
JENNIFER R. GOODMAN
PART II Manuscript and Print Strategies
CHAPTER FOUR Taking Advice from a Frenchwoman: Caxton, Pynson, and Christine de Pizan's Moral Proverbs	127	(40)
A.E.B. COLDIRON
CHAPTER FIVE "Folowynge the trace of mayster Caxton": Some Histories of Fifteenth-Century Printed Books	167	(32)
ALEXANDRA GILLESPIE
PART III Language, Book, and Politics
CHAPTER SIX "Onely imagined": Vernacular Community and the English Press	199	(42)
WILLIAM KUSKIN
CHAPTER SEVEN Old News: Caxton, de Worde, and the Invention of the Edition	241	(34)
WILLIAM N. WEST
CHAPTER EIGHT Losing French: Vernacularity, Nation, and Caxton's English Statutes	275	(24)
PATRICIA CLARE INGHAM
CHAPTER NINE Early Modern Middle English	299	(26)
TIM WILLIAM MACHAN
PART IV Coda
CHAPTER TEN Caxton in the Nineteenth Century	325
SETH LERER
Index	271