Work of Print - Authorship and the Englishtext Trades, 1660-1760

Informationen zum Autor Lisa Maruca is associate professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit. Klappentext Lisa Maruca is associate professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit. Zusammenfassung Traces a shift in the very definition of literature! from one that encompasses the material conditions of the production and distribution of books to the more familiar emphasis on the solitary author's ownership of an abstract text. This book examines attitudes about the creative process and approaches to the commodification of writing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Printing Production Values 2. Printers' Manuals and the Bodies of Type 3. Citizen, Hero, or Midwife? Re-presenting the Bookseller 4. From Authorized Print to Authoritative Author: The Regulated Trade 5. The Printer as Author: Samuel Richardson, Intellectual Property, and the Feminine Text 6. The Ghost in the Machine: Invisible Print in a Digital Age Notes Bibliography Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Lisa Maruca, Lisa M Maruca, Lisa M. Maruca
• Verlag: University Of Washington Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 20.12.2007
• EAN: 9780295987576
• ISBN: 978-0-295-98757-6
• Seiten: 240
• Serien: Literary Conjugations; The Work of Print
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein