Typography and Gender: Remasculating the Modern Book

Author / Editor
Benton, Megan L.

Title
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.