The book in history, the book as history
Subtitle: new intersections of the material text : essays in honor of David Scott Kastan
By: edited by Heidi Brayman, Jesse M. Lander, and Zachary Lesser
Contributors: Brayman Hackel, Heidi, editor; Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Yale University Press
Series: The Beinecke series in the history of the book; Beinecke series in the history of the book
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9780300223163
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: English literature; Authors and readers; Theory; History and criticism; Books and reading; Historicism in literature; Hermeneutics; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Heidi Brayman, Jesse M. Lander, and Zachary Lesser; title: The matter of form : book history, formalist criticism, and Francis Bacon's aphorisms  -- András Kiséry ; with Allison Deutermann; title: Shakespeare after queer theory  -- Mario DiGangi; title: Playbooks and the question of ephemerality  -- Alan B. Farmer; title: Book fetishes  -- Benedict S. Robinson; title: Spenser's thaumaturgy : "mental space" and the material forms of the Faerie queene (1590)  -- Thomas Festa; title: Indicating commodities in early English discovery narratives  -- Daniel Vitkus; title: "His idoliz'd book" : Milton, blood, and rubrication  -- Biana F.-C. Calabresi; title: New poet, old words : glossing the Shepheardes Calender  -- Sarah A. Klein; title: Glossing the margins in Milton's The reason of church-government  -- Chloe Wheatley; title: Hot Protestant Shakespeare  -- Claire McEachern; title: Early modern punctuation and modern editions : Shakespeare's serial colon  -- William H. Sherman; title: Unser Shakespeare in 1940  -- Zoltán Márkus; title: Making histories, or, Shakespeare's Ring -- Adam G. Hooks-- Afterword /-- Peter Stallybrass.