Jody Greene is Associate Professor of Literature and Women's Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

"Greene's book is marvelously smart and analytic, but not just a 'think' book spun out of a few months in the library. The research here is of the hard kind: primary sources, legislative records, court cases. Greene is a real scholar in the classic sense." (John Bender, Stanford University) "Greene's lucid and fluidly written study explores the shifting calculus of ownership as it is worked out in the emerging print culture, a government attempting to keep up in turbulent times, and a legal system predicated on rights arising from property in land and tangible assets." (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) "An excellent book, which covers new ground in the field of the struggle of the press and, most of all, of individual authors . . . in early modern England." (Modern Language Review)

• IntroductionPART I. THE TROUBLE WITH OWNERSHIP1. Authorship and the Regulation of the Press2. The Trials of Ownership: Finding the Author in CourtPART II. THE DANGEROUS FATE OF AUTHORS3. Daniel Defoe, the Act of Anne, and the Obligations of Ownership4. Revenge of the Straw Woman: Disowning The Dunciad5. Hostis Humani Generis: Owning PollyNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

Jody Greene is Associate Professor of Literature and Women's Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

"Greene's book is marvelously smart and analytic, but not just a 'think' book spun out of a few months in the library. The research here is of the hard kind: primary sources, legislative records, court cases. Greene is a real scholar in the classic sense." (John Bender, Stanford University) "Greene's lucid and fluidly written study explores the shifting calculus of ownership as it is worked out in the emerging print culture, a government attempting to keep up in turbulent times, and a legal system predicated on rights arising from property in land and tangible assets." (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) "An excellent book, which covers new ground in the field of the struggle of the press and, most of all, of individual authors . . . in early modern England." (Modern Language Review)

• IntroductionPART I. THE TROUBLE WITH OWNERSHIP1. Authorship and the Regulation of the Press2. The Trials of Ownership: Finding the Author in CourtPART II. THE DANGEROUS FATE OF AUTHORS3. Daniel Defoe, the Act of Anne, and the Obligations of Ownership4. Revenge of the Straw Woman: Disowning The Dunciad5. Hostis Humani Generis: Owning PollyNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

Jody Greene is Associate Professor of Literature and Women's Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

"Greene's book is marvelously smart and analytic, but not just a 'think' book spun out of a few months in the library. The research here is of the hard kind: primary sources, legislative records, court cases. Greene is a real scholar in the classic sense." (John Bender, Stanford University) "Greene's lucid and fluidly written study explores the shifting calculus of ownership as it is worked out in the emerging print culture, a government attempting to keep up in turbulent times, and a legal system predicated on rights arising from property in land and tangible assets." (Eighteenth-Century Fiction) "An excellent book, which covers new ground in the field of the struggle of the press and, most of all, of individual authors . . . in early modern England." (Modern Language Review)

• IntroductionPART I. THE TROUBLE WITH OWNERSHIP1. Authorship and the Regulation of the Press2. The Trials of Ownership: Finding the Author in CourtPART II. THE DANGEROUS FATE OF AUTHORS3. Daniel Defoe, the Act of Anne, and the Obligations of Ownership4. Revenge of the Straw Woman: Disowning The Dunciad5. Hostis Humani Generis: Owning PollyNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments