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American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853

2003 University of Pennsylvania Press ;ISBN: 0812219953 ;ISBN: 9780812219951 ;EISBN: 9780812209747 ;EISBN: 0812209745 ;DOI: 10.9783/9780812209747 ;OCLC: 932313177 ;LCCallNum: PS208 .M38 2002

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Title:
American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853
Author: McGill, Meredith L
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
Description: 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.In this culture of reprinting, the circulation of print outstripped authorial and editorial control. McGill examines the workings of literary culture within this market, shifting her gaze from first and authorized editions to reprints and piracies, from the form of the book to the intersection of book and periodical publishing, and from a national literature to an internally divided and transatlantic literary marketplace. Through readings of the work of Dickens, Poe, and Hawthorne, McGill seeks both to analyze how changes in the conditions of publication influenced literary form and to measure what was lost as literary markets became centralized and literary culture became stratified in the early 1850s.American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853delineates a distinctive literary culture that was regional in articulation and transnational in scope, while questioning the grounds of the startlingly recent but nonetheless powerful equation of the national interest with the extension of authors' rights.
Related Titles: Material Texts
Publisher: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc
Creation Date: 2013
Format: 376
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 0812219953
ISBN: 9780812219951
EISBN: 9780812209747
EISBN: 0812209745
DOI: 10.9783/9780812209747
OCLC: 932313177
LCCallNum: PS208 .M38 2002
Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete

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American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853

2003 University of Pennsylvania Press ;ISBN: 0812219953 ;ISBN: 9780812219951 ;EISBN: 9780812209747 ;EISBN: 0812209745 ;DOI: 10.9783/9780812209747 ;OCLC: 932313177 ;LCCallNum: PS208 .M38 2002

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