American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853

• Main Author: McGill, Meredith L
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc 21.08.2013; University of Pennsylvania Press
• Edition: 1
• Series: Material Texts
• Subjects: 19th century; American literature; American literature-19th century-History and criticism; Authors and publishers; Authors and publishers-United States-History-19th century; Books & Reading; Copyright; Copyright-United States-History-19th century; Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870; Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804–1864; History; History and criticism; Language & Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM; Literature publishing; Literature publishing-United States-History-19th century; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809–1849; Publishers; Relations with publishers; United States

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...

Table of Contents:

• Front Matter Table of Contents Introduction: 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: 4: Unauthorized Poe 5: Poe, Literary Nationalism, and Authorial Identity 6: Suspended Animation: Coda Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
• 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 Contents Introduction: The Matter of the Text Title Page, About the Series, Copyright, Dedication Cover
• Time-Stricken": Narrative Disruption and Self-Indictment -- Sordid Contact": Addressing Ordinary Life and the Disenchantments of Address -- Authorship and the Power of Humiliation -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments
• Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: The Matter of the Text -- 1. Commerce, Print Culture, and the Authority of the State in American Copyright Law -- Discontinuities in the Genealogy of Authorship -- Materiality and the Common Law in Wheaton v. Peters -- Dissemination and the State -- Perfect Title": American Copyright and the Letter of the Law -- 2. International Copyright and the Political Economy of Print -- 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 -- 3. Circulating Media: Charles Dickens, Reprinting, and the Dislocation of American Culture -- Property in Dickens: The 1842 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 -- 4. Unauthorized Poe -- Embracing Secondarity -- Dislocating Reference -- Elaboration, Eclecticism, and the Deferral of Authorship -- Authentic Facsimiles -- 5. 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 of Absolute Possession and Dispossession: Authorial Identity in "The Little Longfellow War -- Disowning Ownership: Poe's Evasion of Identity at the Boston Lyceum -- 6. 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