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Gutjahr, Paul and Megan L. Benton, eds. Illuminating Letters: Typography and Literary Interpretation. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001. 198 pp. ISBN 1558492887 (hc).


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[NOTE: Only Chapter Seven addresses comics]

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ... ix

INTRODUCTION  Reading the Invisible - Paul C. Gutjahr and Megan L. Benton ... 1

CHAPTER ONE  The Letter(s) of the Law: Four Centuries of Typography in the King James Bible - Paul C. Gutjahr ... 17

Bridge One ... 45

CHAPTER TWO  Piers Plouhman [sic] and the "formidable array of blackletter" in the Early Nineteenth Century - Sarah A. Kelen ... 47

Bridge Two ... 69

CHAPTER THREE  Typography and Gender: Remasculating the Modern Book - Megan L. Benton ... 71

Bridge Three ... 95

CHAPTER FOUR  Perpetua(l) Notion: Typography, Economy, and Losing Nella Larsen - Beth McCoy ... 97

Bridge Four ... 115

CHAPTER FIVE  The Autograph Manuscript in Print: Samuel Richardson's Type Font Manipulations in Clarissa - Steven R. Price ... 117

Bridge Five ... 137

CHAPTER SIX  "The Italics Are Mine": Edgar Allan Poe and the Semiotics of Print - Leon Jackson ... 139

Bridge Six ... 163

CHAPTER SEVEN  Graphic Text, Graphic Context: Interpreting Custom Fonts and Hands in Contemporary Comics - Gene Kannenberg, Jr. ... 165

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ... 193

INDEX ... 195





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