1st Edition
Negotiating Copyright Authorship and the Discourse of Literary Property Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
By Martin T. Buinicki
Copyright 2006
248 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
248 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
248 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines how debates over copyright law in the United States during the nineteenth century, particularly over the lack of an international copyright law, intersected with the business practices and political and artistic beliefs of American authors. These debates shaped a discourse of literary property rights that forced authors to negotiate their copyrights not only with their... Read more
List of Tables List of Figures Introduction Chapter I. James Fenimore Cooper's Literary Estate: Individual Property Rights and Monopoly Power The First Professional Author Letters for His Countrymen Home As Found Anti-Rentism and the Continuing Argument over Literary Property Cooper's Literary Estate Chapter II. Harriet Beecher Stowe and Sentimental Possession Propriety and Property In the Courts of Law and Public Opinion Stowe's Literary Travels The Mistress of Canema Books and All Things Sacred The Sentimental(ized) Author-Owner Chapter III. Doing as We would be Done by: Walt Whitman, Copyright, and Democratic Exchange Giving Dickens His Due: Whitman's Budding Views International Copyright and Democracy Piracy and Poetic Ideals: The Hotten and Worthington Printings Poetic Embodiment: Leaves as Property and Poet Chapter IV. Protecting and Promoting Mark Twain: Samuel Clemens and the Uses of Copyright Holding His Claim: Roughing It and the Responsibility of Ownership The Debate Continues: International Copyright Legislation in the 1870s Copyrights and Trademarks Clemens and the Canadians Confronting Contradictions Addressing His Readers: Huckleberry Finn and International Copyright A Characteristic Performance From Miner to Property Holder Conclusion Copyright and The Auction of the Mind Works Cited
Biography
Martin T. Buinicki
