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American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 /

The antebellum period has long been identified with the belated emergence of a truly national literature. And yet, as Meredith L. McGill argues, a mass market for books in this period was built and sustained through what we would call rampant literary piracy: a national literature developed not desp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McGill, Meredith L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
Colección:Material Texts
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Matter of the Text
  • 1. Commerce, Print Culture, and the Authority of the State in American Copyright Law
  • 2. International Copyright and the Political Economy of Print
  • 3. Circulating Media: Charles Dickens, Reprinting, and the Dislocation of American Culture
  • 4. Unauthorized Poe
  • 5. Poe, Literary Nationalism, and Authorial Identity
  • 6. Suspended Animation: Hawthorne and the Relocation of Narrative Authority
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments