Symbolic Caxton: Literary Culture and Print Capitalism
- Author / Editor
- Kuskin, William.
Symbolic Caxton: Literary Culture and Print Capitalism
- Published
- Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008.
- Physical Description
- xxvi, 390 pp.
- Description
- Kuskin presents a manifesto on history-of-the-book studies as well as on the need to rethink Chaucerian reception. The volume is divided into three sections: "Capital and Literary Form," "Authorship and the Chaucerian Inheritance," and "Print and Social Organization."
- The second section includes two chapters: "Chaucerian Inheritances: The Transformation of Lancastrian Literary Culture into the English Canon," a succinct history of Caxton's two editions of Chaucer; and "Uninhabitable Chaucer: Patronage and the Commerce in the Self," an argument that Chaucer's canonical status in the fifteenth century made it difficult for new writers to claim Chaucer's legacy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion