American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 / / Meredith L. McGill.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 16 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Matter of the Text
- 1. Commerce, Print Culture, and the Authority of the State in American Copyright Law
- 2. International Copyright and the Political Economy of Print
- 3. Circulating Media: Charles Dickens, Reprinting, and the Dislocation of American Culture
- 4. Unauthorized Poe
- 5. Poe, Literary Nationalism, and Authorial Identity
- 6. Suspended Animation: Hawthorne and the Relocation of Narrative Authority
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments