Isbn: 9780812238624 - trouble with ownership: literary property and authorial liability in england, 1660-1730 (material texts) (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover octavo in a jacket. Tan boards. "The Trouble with Ownership: Literary Property and Authorial Liability in England, 1660-1730." 272 pages. Jacket and book are near fine.

Zustand: New. In English.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 272 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. Offering a new history of proprietary authorship, this volume is able to address contemporary debates of copyright, intellectual property, and fair use by reorienting critical attention away from authorial rights and toward authorial responsibilities.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Copyright and intellectual property issues are intricately woven into any written work, but the precise nature of this relationship has plagued authors, printers, and booksellers for centuries. What does it mean to own the products of our intellectual labors in our own time And what was the meaning three centuries ago, when copyright laws were first put into place Jody Greene argues that while 'owning' one's book is critical to the development of modern notions of authorship, studies of authorial property rights have in fact lost sight of the most critical valence of owning in early modern England: that is, owning up to or taking responsibility for one's work. Greene puts forth what she calls a 'paranoid theory of copyright,' under which literary property rights are a means of state regulation to assign responsibility for printed works, to identify one person who will step forward and claim the work in exchange for the right to reap the benefits of the literary marketplace. Blending research from legal, historical, and literary archives and drawing on the troubled authorial careers of figures such as Roger L'Estrange, Elizabeth Cellier, Daniel Defoe, John Gay, and Alexander Pope, The Trouble with Ownership looks to the literary culture of early modern England to reveal the intimate relationship between proprietary authorship and authorial liability.…