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The trouble with ownership : literary property and authorial liability in England, 1660-1730 / / Jody Greene



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Autore: Greene Jody Visualizza persona
Titolo: The trouble with ownership : literary property and authorial liability in England, 1660-1730 / / Jody Greene Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (283 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/3554/09032
Soggetto topico: English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism
Liability (Law) - Great Britain - History - 17th century
Liability (Law) - Great Britain - History - 18th century
English literature - 18th century - History and criticism
Copyright - England - History - 17th century
Copyright - England - History - 18th century
Authorship - History - 17th century
Authorship - History - 18th century
Soggetto non controllato: Cultural Studies
Law
Literature
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. The trouble with ownership -- pt. 2. The dangerous fate of authors.
Sommario/riassunto: Copyright and intellectual property issues are intricately woven into any written work, but the precise nature of this relationship has plagued authors, printers, and booksellers for centuries. What does it mean to own the products of our intellectual labors in our own time? And what was the meaning three centuries ago, when copyright laws were first put into place?Jody Greene argues that while "owning" one's book is critical to the development of modern notions of authorship, studies of authorial property rights have in fact lost sight of the most critical valence of owning in early modern England: that is, owning up to or taking responsibility for one's work. Greene puts forth what she calls a "paranoid theory of copyright," under which literary property rights are a means of state regulation to assign responsibility for printed works, to identify one person who will step forward and claim the work in exchange for the right to reap the benefits of the literary marketplace. Blending research from legal, historical, and literary archives and drawing on the troubled authorial careers of figures such as Roger L'Estrange, Elizabeth Cellier, Daniel Defoe, John Gay, and Alexander Pope, The Trouble with Ownership looks to the literary culture of early modern England to reveal the intimate relationship between proprietary authorship and authorial liability.
Titolo autorizzato: The trouble with ownership  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-21166-1
9786613211668
0-8122-0209-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910808038203321
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