Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship

Informationen zum Autor Joseph Loewenstein is Professor of English Literature at Washington University, St Louis, Missouri. Klappentext What is the history of authorship, of invention, of intellectual property? Joseph Loewenstein describes the fragmentary and eruptive emergence of a key phase of the bibliographical ego, a specifically Early Modern form of authorial identification with printed writing. In the work of many playwrights and non-dramatic writers - and especially that of Ben Jonson - that identification is tinged, remarkably, with possessiveness. This book examines the emergence of possessive authorship within a complex industrial and cultural field. It traces the prehistory of modern copyright both within the monopolistic practices of London's acting troupes and its Stationers' Company and within a Renaissance cultural heritage. Under the pressures of modern competition, a tradition of literary, artistic and technological imitation began to fissure, unleashing jealous accusations of plagiarism and ingenious new fantasies of intellectual privacy. Perhaps no one was more creatively attuned to this momentous transformation in Early Modern intellectual life than Ben Jonson. Zusammenfassung Writing before the institution of copyright! Renaissance authors were not recognized as owning their works! yet the written word could be marketed by printers or acting companies and authors held responsible for their writings. This 2002 book probes the literary and institutional history! the politics and the psychology of possessive authorship. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. An introduction to bibliographical biography; 2. Community properties; 3. Upstart crows and other emergencies; 4. Jonson, Martial and the mechanics of plagiarism; 5. Scripts in the marketplace: Jonson and editorial repossession; 6. Afterword: the second folio; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Joseph Loewenstein, Joseph (Washington University Loewenstein, Loewenstein Joseph
• Mitarbeit: Cambridge University Press (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 02.07.2007
• EAN: 9780521038188
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03818-8
• Seiten: 236
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Renaissan; Cambridge Studies in Renaissan; Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights