The book in history, the book as history : new intersections of the material text : essays in honor of David Scott Kastan /

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.

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Corporate Authors: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Yale University Press
Group Author: Kastan, David Scott; Brayman Hackel, Heidi; Lander, Jesse M; Lesser, Zachary
Published: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University,
Publisher Address: New Haven, Connecticut :
Publication Dates: [2016]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: The Beinecke series in the history of the book
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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.
Carrier Form: 417 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles (some color), forms ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780300223163 (paperback) :
0300223161 (paperback)
Index Number: Z1003
CLC: G252.1
Call Number: G252.1/B724
Contents: The matter of form : book history, formalist criticism, and Francis Bacon's aphorisms /
Shakespeare after queer theory /
Playbooks and the question of ephemerality /
Book fetishes /
Spenser's thaumaturgy : "mental space" and the material forms of the Faerie queene (1590) /
Indicating commodities in early English discovery narratives /
"His idoliz'd book" : Milton, blood, an