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Melissa J. Homestead - American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869

Av Melissa J. Homestead

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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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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2005-10-17
  • Mått: 160 x 236 x 23 mm
  • Vikt: 520 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 286
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521853828
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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.

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Review of the hardback: 'With American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869, scholarship on relationships among authorship, copyright, the state and the status of literature in America takes a major step forward. Melissa Homestead's beautifully researched, elegantly written study traces the very different ways in which five successful white women writers manoeuvred within coverture - which applied to women only - and economic and legal circumstances experienced by all antebellum American writers. Homestead not only shows how essential gender is to any account of American literary history worth its salt; she models the kind of intensive historical research required for understanding how property rights, gender and race played out in individual writers' work and lives.' Sandra A. Zagarell, Longman Professor of English, Oberlin College

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