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  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Matter of the Text
  • 1. Commerce, Print Culture, and the Authority of the State in American Copyright Law
  • Discontinuities in the Genealogy of Authorship
  • Materiality and the Common Law in Wheaton v. Peters
  • Dissemination and the State
  • Perfect Title: American Copyright and the Letter of the Law
  • 2. International Copyright and the Political Economy of Print
  • Legalizing Piracy
  • Representing the Nation: The Campaign for International Copyright
  • Decentering the Market: Defending the System of ReprintingMaintaining Decentralization: Reprinting and the Syncopation of the National Imaginary
  • 3. Circulating Media: Charles Dickens, Reprinting, and the Dislocation of American Culture
  • Property in Dickens: The 1842 Tour
  • National Debt and National Identity: The American Circulation of American Notes for General Circulation
  • Representing Decentralization: The Narrative Structure of American Notes
  • Circulation and Slavery
  • Martin Chuzzlewit, the Social Order, and the Medium of Print
  • 4. Unauthorized Poe
  • Embracing SecondarityDislocating Reference
  • Elaboration, Eclecticism, and the Deferral of Authorship
  • Authentic Facsimiles
  • 5. Poe, Literary Nationalism, and Authorial Identity
  • James Russell Lowell and the Be-Mirrorment of Poe
  • Removing the Anonymous: Young America and the Control of Dissemination
  • Narratives of Absolute Possession and Dispossession: Authorial Identity in The Little Longfellow War
  • Disowning Ownership: Poe's Evasion of Identity at the Boston Lyceum
  • 6. Suspended Animation: Hawthorne and the Relocation of Narrative Authority
  • The Uses of ObscuritySleeping Beauty in the Waxworks Monotony and Repose in Early Hawthorne
  • Monotony and Declension: The Properties of Narrative in The House of the Seven Gables
  • Time-Stricken: Narrative Disruption and Self-Indictment
  • Sordid Contact: Addressing Ordinary Life and the Disenchantments of Address
  • Authorship and the Power of Humiliation
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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