William Kuskin is associate professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the editor of Caxton’s Trace: Studies in the History of English Printing (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006).
William Kuskin's new study of Caxton's career, and his significance in English literary history, grows directly from the essays assembled in his edited collection Caxton's Trace. . . . Kuskin has read all the relevant literature and is keen to engage with it. His arguments are also enhanced with copious and appealing illustrations. -- Speculum In Symbolic Caxton, William Kuskin describes the introduction of printing from a material culture perspective and looks at the impact of mass production and patronage on the consumption of Caxton's books. -- Year's Work in English Studies Kuskin's writing is richly associative, animated by an energetic eclecticism of reference. This wide-ranging approach is suited to the book's goals, since the importance of considering all these aspects of books together, of uniting the material and sociocultural history of books with the critical study of the literary texts inside them, is one of Kuskin's central contentions. It is hoped that this conceptually complex and valuable study finds an audience with both literary critics and historians. -- Renaissance Quarterly