15th and Early 16th C. Printing, esp. I am currently in the final stages of putting together a collection of essays on printing before the incorporation of the Stationer's Guild, with special emphasis on William Caxton. I need two essays to round out the collection. It asks after the ways the early printers' work produces new texts and new ideological formations of nationalism, subjecthood and literary authority. More broadly, it asks how a renewed examination of Caxton's work with the press complicates the current debate on canon formation and historical study.
All methodological approaches are welcome.