American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting 1834 1853 1st Edition by Meredith L Mcgill ISBN 0812209745 9780812209747
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ISBN 10: 0812209745
ISBN 13: 9780812209747
Author: Meredith L. Mcgill
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 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.
Table of contents:
1. Commerce, Print Culture, and the Authority of the State in American Copyright Law
Discontinuities in the Genealogy of Authorship
Materiality and the Common Law in Wheaton v. Peters
Dissemination and the State
“Perfect Title”: American Copyright and the Letter of the Law
2. International Copyright and the Political Economy of Print
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
3. Circulating Media: Charles Dickens, Reprinting, and the Dislocation of American Culture
Property in Dickens: The 1842 Tour
National Debt and National Identity: The American Circulation of American Notes for General Circulat
Representing Decentralization: The Narrative Structure of American Notes
Circulation and Slavery
Martin Chuzzlewit, the Social Order, and the Medium of Print
4. Unauthorized Poe
Embracing Secondarity
Dislocating Reference
Elaboration, Eclecticism, and the Deferral of Authorship
Authentic Facsimiles
5. 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 of Absolute Possession and Dispossession: Authorial Identity in “The Little Longfellow Wa
Disowning Ownership: Poe’s Evasion of Identity at the Boston Lyceum
6. 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
Coda
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