McGinnis Originality and Intellectual Property in the French and English Enlightenment

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-1-135-02462-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Are legal concepts of intellectual property and copyright related to artistic notions of invention and originality? Do literary and legal scholars have anything to learn from each other, or should the legal debate be viewed as separate from questions of aesthetics? Bridging what are usually perceived as two distinct areas of inquiry, this interdisciplinary volume begins with a reflection on the "origins" of literary and legal questions in the Enlightenment to consider their ramifications in the post-Enlightenment and contemporary world. Tying in to the growing scholarly interest in connections between law and literature, on the one hand, and to the contemporary interrogation of "originality" and "authorship," on the other hand, the present volume furthers research in the field by providing a dense study of the legal and historical context to re-examine our current assumptions about supposed earlier Enlightenment and Romantic ideals of individual authorship and originality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McGinnis, Reginald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Reginald McGinnis, French, University of Arizona, Introduction

Robert McHenry, English, University of Hawaii. Plagiarism and Paternity in Dryden’s Adaptations

Elizabeth F. Judge, Law, University of Ottawa. Kidnapped and Counterfeit Characters: Eighteenth-Century Fan Fiction, Copyright Law and the Meaning of ‘Originality’

Simon Stern, Law, Harvard Law School. Copyright, Originality and Public Domain in the Eighteenth Century

Anne Sechin, French, Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface. On Plagiarism, Originality, Textual Ownership and Textual Responsibility: the Case of Jacques le fataliste.

Cristina S. Martinez, Law, University of Ottawa. Thomas Gainsborough: The Eloquence and Idiosyncrasy of the Brush

Tilar Mazzeo, English, Colby College. Plagiarism and Aesthetic Judgment in the Romantic Period

John Vignaux Smyth, English, Portand State University. Theft and Originality: Borrowings in Laurence Sterne, Samuel Beckett and Flan O’Brien

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Reginald McGinnis is Associate Professor of French at the University of Arizona. His publications include a book on Baudelaire, La Prostitution sacrée (Paris: Belin, 1994), as well as articles in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, l’Atelier du roman, PO&SIE, Cahiers de l’Herne and the Romanic Review.