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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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