Symbolic Caxton Literary Culture and Print Capitalism 1st Edition by William Kuskin ISBN 978-0268033170 ‎ 026803317X

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ISBN 10:  ‎ 026803317X

ISBN 13:  978-0268033170

Author:  William Kuskin

Symbolic Caxton is the first study to explore the introduction of printing in symbolic terms. It presents a powerful literary history in which the fifteenth century is crucial to the overall story of English literature. William Kuskin argues that the development of print production is part of a larger social network involving the political, economic, and literary systems that produce the intangible constellations of identity and authority. For Kuskin, William Caxton (1422–1491), the first English printer, becomes a unique lens through which to view these issues. Kuskin contends that recognizing the fundamental complexity inherent in the transformation from manuscript to print―the power of literature to formulate its audience, the intimacy of capital and communication, the closeness of commodities and identity―makes possible a clear understanding of the way cultural, bibliographical, financial, and technological instruments intersect in a process of symbolic production.

While this book is the first to connect the contents of late medieval literature to its technological form, it also speaks to contemporary culture, wrestling with our own paradigm shift in the relationship between literature and technology.

Table of contents: 

PART I: Capital and Literary Form
Affixing Value: The Bibliography of Material Culture

Reading Caxton: Capital and the Alchemical Logic of the Press

PART II: Authorship and the Chaucerian Inheritance
Chaucerian Inheritances: The Transformation of Lancastrian Literary Culture into the English Canon

Uninhabitable Chaucer: Patronage and the Commerce in the Self

PART III: Print and Social Organization
Caxton’s Worthies Series: Fifteenth-Century Imagined Communities

Vernacular Humanism: Fifteenth-Century Self-Fashioning and the State-Crowned Laureates

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

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