Inhalt: | "The Typographic Imaginary in Early Modern English Literature contributes to an understanding of how printing changed early modern English literary culture. Rachel Stenner discusses printers' manuals, William Caxton's paratexts, Robert Copland's dramatic dialogues, the prose fictions of William Baldwin, George Gascoigne and Thomas Nashe, and the courtly poetry of Edmund Spenser. This study argues that early modern English literature engages imaginatively with printing and generates a particular aesthetic: the typographic imaginary"-- Instructional texts and print symbolism: Christopher Plantin, Hieronymus Hornschuch, and Joseph Moxon -- An emergent typographic imaginary in William Caxton's Paratexts -- Robert Copland, Thomas Blague, and the printer-author dialogue -- Protestant printing and humanism in Beware the Cat: Undoing printing -- George Gascoigne and Richard Tottel: Negotiating manuscript and print in the poetic miscellany -- Edmund Spenser's early and mid career: Public image and machine horror -- St Paul's Churchyard and the meanings of print: Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Divell |
