Out of sorts : on typography and print culture / Joseph A. Dane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dane, Joseph A.

Series:

Material texts.

Material texts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bibliography--Methodology.

Bibliography.

Bibliography--Methodology--History.

Type and type-founding--History.

Type and type-founding.

Type and type-founding--Historiography.

Printing--History.

Printing.

Printing--Historiography.

Incunabula--Bibliography--Methodology.

Incunabula.

Early printed books--Bibliography--Methodology.

Early printed books.

Bibliography, Critical.

Transmission of texts.

Physical Description:

xii, 242 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 attention to detail, Joseph A. Dane argues, we would find something else entirely: that a careful consideration of typography serves not as a material support to prevailing theories of print but, rather, as a recalcitrant counter-voice to them. In Out of Sorts Dane continues his examination of the ways in which the grand narratives of book history mask what we might actually learn by looking at books themselves. He considers the differences between internal and external evidence for the nature of the type used by Gutenberg and the curious disconnection between the two, and he explores how descriptions of typesetting devices from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have been projected back onto the fifteenth to make the earlier period not more accessible but less. In subsequent chapters, he considers topics that include the modern mythologies of so-called gothic typefaces, the presence of nontypographical elements in typographical form, and the assumptions that underlie the electronic editions of a medieval poem or the visual representation of typographical history in nineteenth-century studies of the subject. Is Dane one of the most original or most traditional of historians of print? In Out of Sorts he demonstrates that it may well be possible to be both things at once.

Contents:

Front matter

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283890175

1283890178

9780812203639

0812203631

OCLC:

794700607