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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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2003.
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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.