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Title:

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

Subject:

Books and reading--History.
English literature--Theory, etc.--Theory, etc.
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Hermeneutics.
Authors and readers--History.
Historicism in literature.

Other Authors:

Kastan, David Scott, honouree.
Brayman Hackel, Heidi, editor.
Lander, Jesse M., editor.
Lesser, Zachary, editor.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, publisher.
Yale University Press, distributor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

The Beinecke series in the history of the book

ISBN:

0300223161
9780300223163

OCLC:

(OCoLC)945564421

LCCN:

2016933933

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)