ISBN: 9780521154758

Through an exploration of women authors''engagements with copyright and married women property laws, American Women authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869, revises nineteenth-century Am… More...

Through an exploration of women authors''engagements with copyright and married women 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 Terhunee, 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. Homesteads'' 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. | American Women Authors and Literary Property 1822â??1869 by Melissa J. Homestead Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theory P10106, Melissa J. Homestead<

ISBN: 9780521154758

Through an exploration of women authors''engagements with copyright and married women property laws, American Women authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869, revises nineteenth-century Am… More...

Through an exploration of women authors''engagements with copyright and married women 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 Terhunee, 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. Homesteads'' 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. | American Women Authors and Literary Property 1822–1869 by Melissa J. Homestead Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theory P10106, Melissa J. Homestead<

ISBN: 9780521154758

Through an exploration of women authors'engagements with copyright and married women property laws, American Women authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869, revises nineteenth-century Ame… More...

Through an exploration of women authors'engagements with copyright and married women 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 Terhunee, 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. Homesteads' 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. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Classics>Lit Studies>Lit Theory & Criticism, Cambridge University Press Core >1<

2010, ISBN: 9780521154758

In American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869, Homestead explores how copyright and married women's property laws shaped the careers of popular American women authors. Five c… More...

In American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869, Homestead explores how copyright and married women's property laws shaped the careers of popular American women authors. Five case studies show how copyright and coverture converged to both foster and constrain women authors in nineteenth-century America. Buch (fremdspr.) Melissa J. Homestead Taschenbuch, Cambridge University Press, 30.06.2010, Cambridge University Press, 2010<