LEADER 04586nam 22007571 450 001 9910789454403321 005 20230721034511.0 010 $a0-8122-0974-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812209747 035 $a(CKB)3710000000054678 035 $a(EBL)3442286 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001190079 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11661395 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001190079 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11189289 035 $a(PQKB)11505767 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442286 035 $a(OCoLC)577674817 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse32126 035 $a(DE-B1597)449319 035 $a(OCoLC)903520609 035 $a(OCoLC)979631286 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812209747 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442286 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10782825 035 $a(OCoLC)932313177 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000054678 100 $a20070319e20072003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican literature and the culture of reprinting, 1834-1853 /$fMeredith L. McGill 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2007. 215 $a1 online resource (376 p.) 225 0 $aMaterial Texts 225 0$aMaterial texts 300 $aOriginally published: 2003. 311 $a0-8122-1995-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: The Matter of the Text --$t1. Commerce, Print Culture, and the Authority of the State in American Copyright Law --$t2. International Copyright and the Political Economy of Print --$t3. Circulating Media: Charles Dickens, Reprinting, and the Dislocation of American Culture --$t4. Unauthorized Poe --$t5. Poe, Literary Nationalism, and Authorial Identity --$t6. Suspended Animation: Hawthorne and the Relocation of Narrative Authority --$tCoda --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aThe antebellum period has long been identified with the belated emergence of a truly national literature. And yet, as Meredith L. McGill argues, a mass market for books in this period was built and sustained through what we would call rampant literary piracy: a national literature developed not despite but because of the systematic copying of foreign works. Restoring a political dimension to accounts of the economic grounds of antebellum literature, McGill unfolds the legal arguments and political struggles that produced an American "culture of reprinting" and held it in place for two crucial decades. In this culture of reprinting, the circulation of print outstripped authorial and editorial control. McGill examines the workings of literary culture within this market, shifting her gaze from first and authorized editions to reprints and piracies, from the form of the book to the intersection of book and periodical publishing, and from a national literature to an internally divided and transatlantic literary marketplace. Through readings of the work of Dickens, Poe, and Hawthorne, McGill seeks both to analyze how changes in the conditions of publication influenced literary form and to measure what was lost as literary markets became centralized and literary culture became stratified in the early 1850's. American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 delineates a distinctive literary culture that was regional in articulation and transnational in scope, while questioning the grounds of the startlingly recent but nonetheless powerful equation of the national interest with the extension of authors' rights. 410 0$aMaterial Texts 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature publishing$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAuthors and publishers$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aCopyright$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLibrary Science and Publishing. 610 $aLiterature. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature publishing$xHistory 615 0$aAuthors and publishers$xHistory 615 0$aCopyright$xHistory 676 $a810.9003 700 $aMcGill$b Meredith L$01004194 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789454403321 996 $aAmerican literature and the culture of reprinting, 1834-1853$93752498 997 $aUNINA