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

Uniting eighteen leading critics in early modern literary studies, this volume explores book history and the material text. The essays incorporate a broad range of subjects, such as gender and sexuality, religion, postcolonial theory, political and economic history, adaptation and appropriation, historical formalism, and digital humanities. With essays on Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, and others, this volume makes early modern literary studies and book history accessible and will be a core resource in the field for years to come.

• Acknowledgments p. 7
• Introduction p. 9 Heidi Brayman and Jesse M. Lander and Zachary Lesser
• I Past Impositions p. 27
• The Matter of Form: Book History, Formalist Criticism, and Francis Bacon's Aphorisms p. 29 András Kiséry and Allison Deuternann
• Shakespeare after Queer Theory p. 65 Mario DiGangi
• Playbooks and the Question of Ephemerality p. 87 Alan B. Farmer
• II Textual Incarnations p. 127
• Book Fetishes p. 129 Benedict S. Robinson
• Spenser's Thaumaturgy: "Mental Space" and the Material Forms of The Faerie Queene (1590) p. 151 Thomas Festa
• Indicating Commodities in Early English Discovery Narratives p. 185 Daniel Vitkus
• "His Idoliz'd Book": Milton, Blood, and Rubrication p. 207 Bianca F.-C. Calabresi
• III Glossing the Text and the Self p. 233
• New Poet, Old Words: Glossing the Shepheardes Calender p. 235 Sarah A. Kelen
• Glossing the Margins in Milton's The Reason of Church-governement p. 257 Chloe Wheatley
• Hot Protestant Shakespeare p. 275 Claire McEachern
• IV Recomposing Shakespeare p. 301
• Early Modern Punctuation and Modern Editions: Shakespeare's Serial Colon p. 303 William H. Sherman
• Unser Shakespeare in 1940 p. 325 Zoltán Márkus
• Making Histories, or, Shakespeare's Ring p. 341 Adam G. Hooks
• Afterword p. 375 Peter Stallybrass
• Contributors p. 391
• Note on Illustrations p. 395
• Index p. 597