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

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Authors: William Kuskin
ISBN-13: 9780268033095, ISBN-10: 0268033099
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Date Published: October 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: William Kuskin

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Table of Contents

Introduction : following Caxton's trace1
1A theory of the early English printing firm : jobbing, book publishing, and the problem of productive capactiy in Caxton's work35
2Violent hierarchies : disciplining women and merchant capitalists in The book of the knyght of the towre69
3Caxton's continent101
4Taking advice from a Frenchwoman : Caxton, Pynson, and Christine de Pizan's moral proverbs127
5"Folowynge the trace of mayster Caxton" : some histories of fifteenth-century printed books167
6"Onely imagined" : vernacular community and the English press199
7Old news : Caxton, de Worde, and the invention of the edition241
8Losing French : vernacularity, nation, and Caxton's English statutes275
9Early modern Middle English299
10Caxton in the nineteenth century325

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