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American women authors and literary property, 1822-1869 /
Through an exploration of women authors' engagements with copyright and married women's property laws, American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822 1869, revises nineteenth-century American literary history, making women's authorship and copyright law central. Using case studies...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: "Lady-writers" and "Copyright, authors, and authorship" in nineteenth-century America
- Authors, wives, slaves: coverture, copyright, and authorial dispossession, 1831-1869
- "Suited to the market": Catharine Sedgwick, female authorship, and the literary property debates, 1822-1842
- "When I can read my title clear": Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Stowe v. Thomas copyright infringement case (1853)
- "Every body sees the theft": Fanny Fern and periodical reprinting in the 1850s
- A "rank rebel" lady and her literary property: Augusta Jane Evans and copyright, the Civil War and after, 1861-1868
- Epilogue: Belford v. Scribner (1892) and the ghost of Mary Virginia Terhune's Phemie's temptation (1869); or, The lessons of the "Lady-writers" of the 1820s through the 1860s for literary history and twenty-first-century copyright law.