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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.

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  • Title Symbolic Caxton: Literary Culture and Print Capitalism
  • Author William Kuskin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Notre Dame Press, NOTRE DAME, IN
  • Publication date 2008-01-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780268033170 / 026803317X
  • Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
  • Category Technology & Industrial Arts
  • Library of Congress subjects Caxton, William, England - Civilization - 1066-1485
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007033007
  • Dewey Decimal Code 686.209

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2008, Page 289

About the author

William Kuskin is associate professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the editor of Caxton's Trace: Studies in the History of English Printing (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006).

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