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Incorporation, Authorship, and Anglo-American Literature (1815–1918) book cover

1st Edition

Incorporation, Authorship, and Anglo-American Literature (1815–1918)

By Jasper Schelstraete Copyright 2020
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge
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Incorporation, Authorship, and Anglo-American Literature (1815–1918) is concerned with the new ways in which nineteenth-century authors came to imagine nationhood in response to the emergent global market. It investigates how authors negotiated a largely unregulated global economic space, both imaginatively—in their representations of it—and pragmatically, through author-publisher agreements to... Read more
 

Introduction

Chapter 1: Transatlantic Authorship as a Joint-Venture: Washington Irving and Herman Melville

    1. Washington Irving

    2. Herman Melville

Chapter 2: Transatlantic Authorship Incorporated: Charles Dickens and Harriet Beecher Stowe

    1. Charles Dickens

    2. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Chapter 3: Legal Fiction: E.D.E.N. Southworth and Anthony Trollope

3.1 E.D.E.N Southworth

3.2 Anthony Trollope

Chapter 4: Corporate Authorship and Authorial Self-fashioning: Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad

4.1 Thomas Hardy

4.2 Joseph Conrad

Conclusion

Biography

Jasper Schelstraete is an FWO postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University. He defended his doctoral dissertation, "The Atlantic Between Them: Dickens, Melville, and Nationality in the Transatlantic Market" at Ghent University in August 2014. He has held a Belgian American Educational Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University, and was awarded a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship. His work has been published in English: Journal of the English Association, Journal of Victorian Culture, Victorian Periodicals Review, and Dickens Quarterly.

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