American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007 M04 30 - 364 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
Come from my first aye come | 40 |
International Copyright and the Political Economy of Print | 76 |
Charles Dickens Reprinting and | 109 |
Unauthorized Poe | 141 |
Poe Literary Nationalism and Authorial Identity | 187 |
Hawthorne and the Relocation | 218 |
The Properties of Narrative | 233 |
Narrative Disruption and SelfIndictment | 242 |
Addressing Ordinary Life and the Disenchantments | 252 |
Authorship and the Power of Humiliation | 262 |
Coda | 270 |
Notes | 279 |
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Acknowledgments | 361 |
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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 Limited preview - 2013 |
American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 Meredith L. McGill No preview available - 2007 |