Melissa J. Homestead

American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Through an exploration of women authors' engagements with copyright and married women's property laws, American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869, revises nineteenth-century American literary history, making women's authorship and copyright law central. Using case studies of five popular fiction writers - Catharine Sedgwick, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fanny Fern, Augusta Evans, and Mary Virginia Terhune - Homestead shows how the convergence of copyright and coverture both fostered and constrained white women's agency as authors. Women authors exploited their status as nonproprietary subjects to advantage by adapting themselves to a copyright law that privileged readers'access to literature over authors' property rights. Homestead's inclusion of the Confederacy in this work sheds light on the centrality of copyright to nineteenth-century American nationalisms and on the strikingly different construction of author reader relations under U.S. and Confederate copyright laws.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511343407
• Artikelnr.: 38189512

Autorenporträt

Melissa J. Homestead is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. She held the Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society. Her work has appeared in Prospects, New England Quarterly, Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Critical Perspectives, and Jewett and Her Contemporaries. In 2003, she directed the third Catharine Maria Sedgwick Symposium.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'lady-writers' and 'copyright
authors
and authorship' in nineteenth-century America; 1. Authors
wives
slaves: coverture
copyright
and authorial dispossession
1831-1869; 2. Suited to the market: Catharine Sedgwick
female authorship
and the literary property debates
1822-1842; 3. When I can read my title clear: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Stowe v. Thomas Copyright Infringement case (1853); 4. Every body sees the theft: Fanny Fern and periodical reprinting in the 1850s; 5. A 'rank rebel' lady and her literary property: Augusta Jane Evans and copyright
the Civil War and after
1861-1868; ; Epilogue. Belford v. Scriber (1892) and the ghost of Mary Virginia Terhune's Phemie's Temptation (1869); or
the lessons of the 'lady-writers' of the 1820's through the 1860s for literary history and twenty-first-century copyright law.