Out of Sorts : : On Typography and Print Culture / / Joseph A. Dane.

The new history of the book has constituted a vibrant academic field in recent years, and theories of print culture have moved to the center of much scholarly discourse. One might think typography would be a basic element in the construction of these theories, yet if only we would pay careful attent...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 38 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • PART I Out of Sorts
  • Chapter one. On the Continuity of Continuity: Print Culture Mythology and the Type of the Gutenberg Bible (B42)
  • Chapter two. Gottfried Zedler and the Twentieth- Century History of DK Type
  • Chapter three. The Voodoo Economics of Space: From Gothic to Roman
  • Chapter four. The Typographical Gothic: A Cautionary Note on the Title Page to Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
  • Interlude: At the Typographical Altar: Interlude for Randall McLeod
  • PART II Images and Texts
  • Chapter five. Fists and Filiations in Early Chaucer Folios, 1532-1602
  • Chapter six. Editorial and Typographical Diplomacy in the Piers Plowman Archive
  • Chapter seven. The Representation of Representation: Versions of Linear Perspective
  • Chapter eight. Typographical Antiquity in Thomas Frognall Dibdin's Typographical Antiquities
  • Conclusion Print Culture Redivivus
  • Notes
  • Principal works cited
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments