American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013 M10 11 - 376 pages 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 despite but because of the systematic copying of foreign works. Restoring a political dimension to accounts of the economic grounds of antebellum literature, McGill unfolds the legal arguments and political struggles that produced an American "culture of reprinting" and held it in place for two crucial decades. |
Contents
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1 Commerce Print Culture and the Authority of the State in American Copyright Law | 45 |
2 International Copyright and the Political Economy of Print | 76 |
Charles Dickens Reprinting and the Dislocation of American Culture | 109 |
4 Unauthorized Poe | 141 |
5 Poe Literary Nationalism and Authorial Identity | 187 |
Hawthorne and the Relocation of Narrative Authority | 218 |
Coda | 270 |
Notes | 279 |
Bibliography | 335 |
Index | 351 |
Acknowledgments | 361 |
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American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 Meredith L. McGill Limited preview - 2007 |
American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 Meredith L. McGill Limited preview - 2003 |
American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 Meredith L. McGill No preview available - 2007 |