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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
Autor principal: McGill, Meredith L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Matter of the Text
  • Commerce, Print Culture, and the Authority of the State in American Copyright Law
  • Discontinuities in the Genealogy ofAuthorship
  • Materiality and the Common Law in Wheaton v. Peters
  • Dissemination and the State
  • "Perfect Title": American Copyright and the Letter of the Law
  • International Copyright and the Political Economy of P'rint
  • Legalizing Piracy
  • Representing the Nation: The Campaign for International Copyright
  • Decentering the Market: Defending the System of Reprinting
  • Maintaining Decentralization: Reprinting and the Syncopation of the National Imaginary
  • Circulating Media: Charles Dickens, Reprinting, and the Dislocation of American Culture
  • Property in Dickens: The i842 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
  • Unauthorized Poe
  • Embracing Secondarity
  • Dislocating Reference
  • Elaboration, Eclecticism, and the Deferral of Authorship
  • Authentic Facsimiles
  • 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 ofAbsolute Possession and Dispossession: Authorial Identity in "The Little Longfellow War"
  • Disowning Ownership: Poe's Evason of Identity at the Boston Lyceum
  • Suspended Animation: Hawthorne and the Relocation of Narrative Authority
  • The Uses of Obscurity
  • "Sleeping 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.