Buinicki Negotiating Copyright

Authorship and the Discourse of Literary Property Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-135-50223-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buinicki, Martin T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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