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Material Texts: American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 by Meredith L. McGill (2007, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-100812219953
ISBN-139780812219951
eBay Product ID (ePID)57212435

Product Key Features

Number of Pages376 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameAmerican Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853
SubjectPublishing, Intellectual Property / Copyright, American / General, Books & Reading, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year2007
TypeTextbook
AuthorMeredith L. Mcgill
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Law, Language Arts & Disciplines
SeriesMaterial Texts
FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight19.9 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6.4 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"McGill revises the story we tell about heroic authors in a benighted age before international copyright. Students of antebellum American culture . . . will be consulting her research and citing her arguments frequently and for a long time."--Edgar Allan Poe Review, "There is much here to interest readers from many disciplines and fields. I cannot recommend this book highly enough to all who wish to learn more about the different ways in which Americans conceived of intellectual property and their evolving print culture."--Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, "In meticulously researched and richly detailed readings, McGill . . . finds an exuberant reprint culture that is both regional and transatlantic."--American Literature, McGill's book will have a major impact on history of the book scholarship as well as upon American literary and cultural studies more generally., "McGill's book will have a major impact on history of the book scholarship as well as upon American literary and cultural studies more generally."--Janice Radway, "McGill's book will have a major impact on history of the book scholarship as well as upon American literary and cultural studies more generally."-Janice Radway, "A major study of Jacksonian print culture that should be required reading."--American Studies"In meticulously researched and richly detailed readings, McGill . . . finds an exuberant reprint culture that is both regional and transatlantic."--American Literature, "In meticulously researched and richly detailed readings, McGill . . . finds an exuberant reprint culture that is both regional and transatlantic."-- American Literature, In meticulously researched and richly detailed readings, McGill . . . finds an exuberant reprint culture that is both regional and transatlantic., "In meticulously researched and richly detailed readings, McGill . . . finds an exuberant reprint culture that is both regional and transatlantic."- American Literature
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal810.9003
SynopsisThe 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, 1834-1853 delineates 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.
LC Classification NumberPS208.M38 2007