Title & Author:

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.

Publication:

New Haven, Connecticut : Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, [2016]
New Haven ; London : Distributed by Yale University Press.
©2016

Description:

417 pages : illustrations, facsimiles (some color) ; 23 cm

Series:

The Beinecke series in the history of the book

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Heidi Brayman, Jesse M. Lander, and Zachary Lesser -- The matter of form : book history, formalist criticism, and Francis Bacon's aphorisms / András Kiséry ; 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 / Bianca 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 / Zoltán Márkus -- 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.

ISBN:

0300223161 (paperback)
9780300223163 (paperback)

Subject:

Englisch, ...
Bibel Ester
Books and reading History.
English literature History and criticism Theory, etc.
English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.
Hermeneutics.
Authors and readers History.
Historicism in literature.
Livres et lecture Histoire.
Herméneutique.
Écrivains et lecteurs Histoire.
Historicisme dans la littérature.
hermeneutics.
English literature Theory, etc.
English literature Early modern
Authors and readers
Books and reading
Buchgeschichte
Literatur
Materialität
Großbritannien

Form/genre:

Festschriften.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Mélanges (Recueils)

Added entries:

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.
Beinecke series in the history of the book.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293426
Call No.: BIB 238349
Status: Available