The book in history, the book as history : new intersections of the material text : essays in honor of David Scott Kastan / edited by Heidi Brayman, Jesse M. Lander, and Zachary Lesser.
Publisher:
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript LibraryYale University,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
417 pages : illustrations, facsimiles (some color) ; 23 cm
Afterword / Peter Stallybrass. Making histories, or, Shakespeare's Ring / Andras Kisery ; 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 / Zoltan Markus -- Making histories, or, Shakespeare's Ring / Adam G. Hooks -- Afterword / Peter Stallybrass.
Summary:
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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.