Early Modern Authorship and Prose Continuations - Adaptation and Ownership From Sidney to Richardson

Informationen zum Autor Natasha Simonova completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh, where she currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. She also writes fiction. Klappentext The first in-depth account of fictional sequels in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this examines cases of prose fiction works being continued by multiple writers, reading them for evidence of Early Modern attitudes towards authorship, originality, and literary property. Zusammenfassung The first in-depth account of fictional sequels in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries! this examines cases of prose fiction works being continued by multiple writers! reading them for evidence of Early Modern attitudes towards authorship! originality! and literary property. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Works of Another Hand 2. The 'Perfect-Unperfect' Arcadia 3. Approaches to Authorship in the Arcadia Continuations 4. Rogues and Pilgrims: Two Restoration Bestsellers 5. Samuel Richardson vs. the 'High Life Men' 6. Closing the Circle: Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison Conclusion: The Fall of the Sequel Notes Bibliography Index

List of contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Works of Another Hand 2. The 'Perfect-Unperfect' Arcadia 3. Approaches to Authorship in the Arcadia Continuations 4. Rogues and Pilgrims: Two Restoration Bestsellers 5. Samuel Richardson vs. the 'High Life Men' 6. Closing the Circle: Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison Conclusion: The Fall of the Sequel Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: N Simonova, N. Simonova, Natasha Simonova
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349501472
• ISBN: 978-1-349-50147-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Early Modern Literature in History; Early Modern Literature in His; Early Modern Literature in History; Early Modern Literature in His
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Fiction & related items, Law, Fiction, Commercial law, Literary studies: general, Mass Media, Literary theory, Entertainment & media law, IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property, European Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern