Typography and Gender: Remasculating the Modern Book
- Author / Editor
- Benton, Megan L.
Typography and Gender: Remasculating the Modern Book
- Published
- Paul C. Gutjahr and Megan L. Benton, eds. Illuminating Letters: Typography and Literary Interpretation ( Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001), pp. 71-93.
- Series
- Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book.
- Description
- Exploring the relationship between gender identity and book production at the turn of the twentieth century, Benton assesses the format and typography of the Kelmscott Chaucer (1896) and Eric Gill's illustrations to The Canterbury Tales (1930). Also considers editions of Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
- Alternative Title
- Illuminating Letters: Typography and Literary Interpretation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.