Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England

Contents: Introduction, Douglas A. Brooks. Part I Reproductive Rhetorics: Imprints: Shakespeare, Gutenberg, and Descartes, Margreta de Grazia Meaning, 'seeing', printing, Ann Thompson and John O. Thompson. Part II Ink and Kin: A womb of his own: male Renaissance poets in the female body, Katharine Eisaman Maus Ben Jonson's branded thumb and the imprint of textual paternity, Lynne Dickson Bruckner All father: Ben Jonson and the psychodynamics of authorship, David Lee Miller. Part III Issues of the Book Trade: The bastard art: woodcut illustration in 16th-century England, James A. Knapp Promiscuous textualities: the Nashe-Harvey controversy and the unnatural productions of print, Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast The birth of advertising, Michael Baird Saenger Printing bastards: monstrous birth broadsides in early modern England, Aaron W. Kitch 'Red Incke': reading the bleeding on the early modern page, Bianca F.C. Calabresi. Part IV Parental Authorities: Marginal maternity: reading Lady Anne Clifford's A Mirror for Magistrates, Stephen Orgel Checking the father: anxious paternity and Jacobean press censorship, Cyndia Susan Clegg Pater patriae: James I and the imprint of prerogative, Howard Marchitello. Part V Textual Legacies: How many children had Alice Walker? Laurie E. Maguire Mothers and authors: Johnson v. Calvert and the new children of our imagination, Mark Rose In locus parentis, Judith Roof. Afterword, Jennifer Wynne Hellwarth Bibliography Index.