Abstract:In this monograph, as in the recent essay collection he edited (Caxton's Trace: Studies in the History of English Printing, 2006), William Kuskin aims, laudably, to refocus critical attention on the history of texts and text-making in the underloved English fifteenth century. The incunable period should be understood, Kuskin argues, not merely as a transitional or introductory phase, but as central to larger patterns in book history: not as "the beginning of a linear movement toward print culture" but as "part… Show more
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