1st Edition
The Birth and Death of the Author A Multi-Authored History of Authorship in Print
Introduction: The Begetting and Forgetting of the Author
Andrew J. Power (University of Sharjah, UAE)
Chapter 1, C15th: Fathering Chaucer: Thoreau, Hoccleve, Lydgate, and the Invention of the First English Author
Andrew Galloway (Cornell University)
Chapter 2, C16th: Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Traces of Authorship
Rory Loughnane (University of Kent)
Chapter 3, C17th: Authorial Identity and Print in John Taylor’s Common Whore and Arrant Thiefe Pamphlets
Edel Semple (University College Cork)
Chapter 4, C18th: Samuel Richardson’s "Murdering Pen" and the End of the Novel
Natasha Simonova (University of Oxford)
Chapter 5, C19th: Melville’s ‘Bartleby’ and the Prefiguration of the Author’s Own Preference Not to Write
William E. Engel (Sewanee, University of the South)
Chapter 6, C20th: La Mort de l’Auteur: James Joyce and the Birth of Writing
Brad Tuggle (University of Alabama)
Chapter 7, C21st: Who is that Knocking on your Door?: Authorship, Print, and the Multimodal Comics of Grant Morrison in a Digital Age
Darragh Greene (University College Dublin)
Bibliography
Biography
Andrew J. Power is Assistant Professor of English in the Department of English Language and Literature, University of Sharjah, UAE. He took his BA (hons) and PhD in English at Trinity College Dublin (1999; 2006) and has since held posts at the University of Cyprus and Saint Louis University – Madrid Campus. He is the editor of Late Shakespeare, 1608-1613 (2012), of Early Shakespeare, 1588-1594 (2020), and of a Yearbook of English Studies special issue on Caroline Literature (2014). His forthcoming monograph is entitled Stages of Madness: Sin, Sickness, and Seneca in Shakespearean Tragedy.
"Tuggle’s chapter is appropriate and educational for both seasoned scholars of Joyce and those who wish to learn more. In considering the collection of chapters holistically, one sees that the other authors’ essays are similar in that they offer a fresh investigation into their designated century of authorship as it related to the author(s) and text(s) discussed. My only minor quibble about the work as a whole is that an understanding of the general area of criticism requires knowledge about Barthes and his theoretical landscape, but Power’s introduction is a wonderful presentation for those eager to learn and others who may require a refresher."
--Amanda Greenwood, James Joyce Quarterly 60: 1-2 (Fall 2022-Winter 2023)
