Symbolic Caxton : literary culture and print capitalism / William Kuskin.

Author/creator Kuskin, William
Format Book
Publication InfoNotre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxxvi, 390 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Caxton, William, approximately 1422-1491 or 1492.
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.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 299-367) and index.
LCCN 2007033007
ISBN9780268033170 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN026803317X (pbk. : alk. paper)