Caxton's Trace

Studies in the History of English Printing

William Kuskin

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English

University of Notre Dame Press
24 January 2006

Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Printing & reprographic technology

William Caxton (ca. 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. On one level, then, the book reads early printers' editions as evolutionary, reproducing preexisting production methods; on another, however, it argues that these printers introduced 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.

Edited by: William Kuskin
Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 620g
ISBN: 9780268033095
ISBN 10: 0268033099
Pages: 424
Publication Date: 24 January 2006
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

William Kuskin is associate professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi. Contributors: William Kuskin, David R. Carlson, Mark Addison Amos, Jennifer R. Goodman, A. E. B. Coldiron, Alexandra Gillespie, William N. West, Patricia Clare Ingham, Tim William Machan, and Seth Lerer.

Reviews for Caxton's Trace: Studies in the History of English Printing

Caxton's Trace is an excellent collection that takes up an important and understudied moment in the development of vernacular literature. -- Ethan Knapp Caxton's Trace is an ambitious collection of essays whose contributions extend well beyond their late fifteenth-century focus. This volume is particularly impressive for its integrity: the chapters cohere to a remarkable degree, creating sustained interventions in our ongoing study of printing, of technology and culture, of early capitalism, and of English nationalism. --Journal of British Studies, vol. 46, no. 1, January 2007