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American women authors and literary property, 1822-1869 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	American women authors and literary property, 1822-1869 // Melissa J. Homestead.
remainder title:	American Women Authors & Literary Property, 1822–1869
Author:	Homestead, Melissa J.,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 272 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	American literature - Women authors -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511497919
ISBN:	9780511497919 (ebook)

American women authors and literary property, 1822-1869 /
Homestead, Melissa J.,1963-

American women authors and literary property, 1822-1869 /American Women Authors & Literary Property, 1822–1869Melissa J. Homestead. - 1 online resource (xi, 272 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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

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.

ISBN: 9780511497919 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

558085
American literature
--Women authors

LC Class. No.: PS217.W64 / H66 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 810.9/9287/09034

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