Printing and parenting in early modern England / edited by Douglas A. Brooks.

Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2005], ©2005.

xviii, 436 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-427) and index.

Imprints : Shakespeare, Gutenberg, and Descartes / Margreta de Grazia -- Meaning, seeing printing / Ann Thompson and John O. Thompson -- 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 -- Bastard art : woodcut illustration in sixteenth-century England / James A. Knapp -- Promiscuous textualities : the Nashe-Harvey controversy and the unnatural productions of print / Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast -- Birth of advertising / Michael Baird Saenger -- Printing bastards : monstrous birth broadsides in early modern England / Aaron W. Kitch -- Red incke : reading the bleeding the early modern page / Bianca F.C. Calabresi -- Marginal maternity : reading Lady Anne Cliffords'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 -- 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.