Title: The book in history, the book as history :
Authors: Kastan, David Scott,; Brayman Hackel, Heidi,; Lander, Jesse M.,; Lesser, Zachary,; Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,; Yale University Press,
Date: 2016
Publisher: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale Univ Press,
Physical description: 417 pages : illustrations, facsimiles (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Z
Abstract: The essays in this collection reach beyond book history to address fundamental questions about historicism with a broad range of issues such as gender and sexuality, religion, political theory, economic history, adaptation and appropriation, and quantitative analysis and digital humanities.
Contents: Heidi Brayman, Jesse M. Lander, and Zachary Lesser -- The matter of form : book history, formalist criticism, and Francis Bacon's aphorisms / András Kiséry with Allison Deutermann -- Shakespeare after queer theory / Mario DiGangi -- Playbooks and the question of ephemerality / Alan B. Farmer -- Book fetishes / Benedict S. Robinson -- Spenser's thaumaturgy : "mental space" and the material forms of The Faerie Queene (1590) / Thomas Festa -- Indicating commodities in early English discovery narratives / Daniel Vitkus -- "His idoliz'd book" : Milton, blood, and rubrication / Biana F.-C. Calabresi -- New poet, old words : glossing the Shepheardes Calender / Sarah A. Klein -- Glossing the margins in Milton's The Reason of Church-government / Chloe Wheatley -- Hot Protestant Shakespeare / Claire McEachern -- Early modern punctuation and modern editions : Shakespeare's serial colon / William H. Sherman -- Unser Shakespeare in 1940 / Zoltán Márkus -- Making histories : or, Shakespeare's Ring / Adam G. Hooks -- Peter Stallybrass.
Notes: "Essays in Honor of David Scott Kastan."
Subject headings (LCSH): Authors and readers--History.; Books and reading--History.; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.; English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.