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Caxton's Trace - Studies in the History of English Printing (Hardcover)
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Caxton's Trace - Studies in the History of English Printing (Hardcover)
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William Caxton (c. 1421-1492) and the printers who immediately
followed him, Wynkyn de Worde and Richard Pynson, dominated early
English printing. Surprisingly, their ideological impact on English
literary history - their transformation of a textual economy based
in manuscript production, their strategic development of
authorship, their collation of English literature - remains largely
unrecognized, overshadowed by the work of later sixteenth-century
printers and folded into the general transition from the Middle
Ages to the Renaissance. This collection, the first such work on
Caxton and his contemporaries, consists of ten original essays that
explore early English culture, from Caxton's introduction of the
press, through questions of audience, translation, politics, and
genre, to the modern fascination with Caxton's books. The
contributors to this volume approach the study of the printed book
as the study of literary culture, and so broaden the traditional
terms of bibliography to argue that no full understanding of books
is possible without consideration of the larger nature of cultural
production and reproduction. reproducing preexisting production
methods; on another, however, it argues that these printers
introduce a significantly new relationship between material and
symbolic forms. Thus, Caxton's Trace suggests that the first
century of print production is defined less by transition or break,
than by a dynamic transformation in literary production itself.
This collection will be valuable to scholars of the medieval and
early modern periods and makes a significant contribution to the
history of the book.
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