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1 online resource (viii, 364 pages) : illustrations |
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Material texts |
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Material texts.
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The Matter of the Text -- Commerce, Print Culture, and the Authority of the State in American Copyright Law -- Discontinuities in the Genealogy ofAuthorship -- Materiality and the Common Law in Wheaton v. Peters -- Dissemination and the State -- "Perfect Title": American Copyright and the Letter of the Law -- International Copyright and the Political Economy of P'rint -- 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 -- Circulating Media: Charles Dickens, Reprinting, and the Dislocation of American Culture -- Property in Dickens: The i842 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 -- Unauthorized Poe -- Embracing Secondarity -- Dislocating Reference -- Elaboration, Eclecticism, and the Deferral of Authorship -- Authentic Facsimiles -- 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 ofAbsolute Possession and Dispossession: Authorial Identity in "The Little Longfellow War" -- Disowning Ownership: Poe's Evason of Identity at the Boston Lyceum -- 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 -- "Time-Stricken" : Narrative Disruption and Self-Indictment -- "Sordid Contact": Addressing Ordinary Life and the Disenchantments of Address -- Authorship and the Power of Humiliation |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-350) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Relations with publishers
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Relations with publishers
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Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Relations with publishers
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Authors and publishers -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Copyright -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature publishing -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0812209745 (electronic bk.) |
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9780812209747 (electronic bk.) |
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