"The greatest bibliographer of our time", was how historian Robert
Darnton described D. F. McKenzie. Yet until now many of McKenzie's
major essays, scattered in specialist journals and inaccessible
publications, have circulated mainly in tattered photocopies. This
volume, edited by two of McKenzie's former students, brings
together for the first time a wide range of his writings on
bibliography, the book trade, and the "sociology of texts".
Selected by the author himself before his sudden death in 1999, the
essays range from the material transmission of Shakespeare's plays
in the seventeenth century to the connections among oral,
manuscript, and print cultures.
Making Meaning reflects McKenzie's virtuosity as a traditional
bibliographer and reveals how his thought-provoking scholarship
made him a driving force in the genesis and development of the new
interdisciplinary field of book history. His refusal to recognize
the traditional boundary between bibliography and literary history
re-energized the study of the social, political, economic, and
cultural aspects of book production and reception.
The editors' introduction and head-notes situate McKenzie's
innovative and controversial thinking in the debates of his
time.
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