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Symbolic Caxton: Literary Culture and Print Capitalism
Symbolic Caxton: Literary Culture and Print Capitalism, Symbolic Caxton is the first study to explore the introduction of printing in symbolic terms. For Kuskin, William Caxton (1422-1491/92), the first English printer, becomes a unique lens through which to view the development of the English canon. Kuskin co, Symbolic Caxton: Literary Culture and Print Capitalism has a rating of 4.5 stars
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  • Symbolic Caxton: Literary Culture and Print Capitalism
  • Written by author William Kuskin
  • Published by University of Notre Dame Press, January 2008
  • Symbolic Caxton is the first study to explore the introduction of printing in symbolic terms. For Kuskin, William Caxton (1422-1491/92), the first English printer, becomes a unique lens through which to view the development of the English canon. Kuskin co
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List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments xi

Works Cited in Short Form xv

Introduction: A Theory of Literary Reproduction 1

Part I Capital and Literary Form

Chapter 1 Affixing Value: The Bibliography of Material Culture 29

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 81

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 117

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 155

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 193

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 236

Dido Overdetermined

The Laureate System

Epilogue The Archival Imagination (or What Goodes Has to Say) 284

Notes 299

Index 368


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