American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853

Name: American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853
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ISBN: 9780812219951

ISBN-10: 0812219953

ISBN-13: 9780812219951

Edition: 2003

Authors: Meredith L. McGill

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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…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 4/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.38" wide x 8.86" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.232