id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt v979v121748 Kathleen Ann Tonry William Caxton and the Labor of Literature in Fifteenth Century England 2005 .txt text/plain 341 9 33 Focusing on the figure of William Caxton, the project analyzes the ways in which the advent of print intersected with late-medieval theories of literary production, and demonstrates that through his prologues, editorial interventions, and textual selections, Caxton sustained a rich and markedly literary dialogue with not only the new terms of printed production, but the complex political, economic and legal horizons of his enterprise. Thus, this project will focus on the years of Richard III's reign (1483-85) as crucial ones in understanding how Caxton constructed literary work within the new form of print, and how the role of incunables might emerge against the backdrop of fifteenth century politics. cache/v979v121748.txt txt/v979v121748.txt