Symbolic Caxton literary culture and print capitalism /

Kuskin, William.

Symbolic Caxton literary culture and print capitalism / [electronic resource] : William Kuskin. - Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2008. - xxvi, 390 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-367) and index.

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.


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Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491 or 2.


Printing--History--Origin and antecedents.--England
Book industries and trade--History--England--To 1500.
Books and reading--History--England--To 1500.


England--Civilization--1066-1485.


Electronic books.

Z232.C38 / K88 2008

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