Out of Sorts

Joseph A. Dane is Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He is the author of numerous books, including The Myth of Print Culture: Essays on Evidence, Textuality, and Bibliographical Analysis.

• List of Abbreviations ixList of IllustrationsIntroductionPART I . OUT OF SORTSChapter 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 TypeChapter Three. The Voodoo Economics of Space: From Gothic to RomanChapter Four. The Typographical Gothic: A Cautionary Note on the Title Page to Percy's Reliques of Ancient English PoetryINTERLUDEAt the Typographical Altar: Interlude for Randall McLeodPART I I . IMAGES AND TEXTSChapter Five. Fists and Filiations in Early Chaucer Folios (1532-1602)Chapter Six. Editorial and Typographical Diplomacy in the Piers Plowman ArchiveChapter Seven. The Representation of Representation: Versions of Linear PerspectiveChapter Eight. Typographical Antiquity in Thomas Frognall Dibdin's Typographical AntiquitiesConclusion: Print Culture Redivivus/Note on a Note by Walt WhitmanNotesPrincipal Works CitedIndexAcknowledgments

"Joseph Dane is known for writings that are learned, witty, and provocative; and his latest collection of essays is a further display of his idiosyncratic approach to scholarship and history." (Common Knowledge) "Joseph A. Dane has been the most provocative and idiosyncratic of bibliographical scholars. His own scholarship develops through intensely technical studies of artifacts and phenomena-a particular title page, a particular mechanism in the print shop, the work of a particular printer or editor-that create a broader narrative arc, the primary goal of which is to unmask assumptions that he often calls 'myths.' His work has the precision of the best people in the field, combined with an ironic stance and an imaginative archival sensibility." (Seth Lerer, University of California, San Diego)