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Most critics and historians consider that the emergence of a free press liberated 18th century American authors. In this study, the author seeks to overturn this view, arguing that the emergence of economic liberalism transformed American authorship into a market-oriented profession.

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Acknowledgments Introduction Pt. I: The Transformation of Authorship 1: The World Turned Upside Down: Sociopolitical Criticism in Puritan America 2: The Rise of a Free Press and the Erosion of a Public Sphere: The Zenger Case Reconsidered 3: Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and Republican Print Rationality 4: Liberalism and Republication: The Problem of Copyright for Authorship in America Pt. II: The Aesthetic Response 5: Crevecoeur and Strategies of Accommodation 6: Brackenridge and the Resistance to Textual Authority Pt. III: The Rhetoric of Fiction 7: Authorial Coquetry and the Early American Novel Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

The Transformation of Authorship in America

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 6 September 1997
      ISBN-13 9780226711232
      978-0226711232
      ISBN-10 0226711234
      Also in:
      Economic history Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Most critics and historians consider that the emergence of a free press liberated 18th century American authors. In this study, the author seeks to overturn this view, arguing that the emergence of economic liberalism transformed American authorship into a market-oriented profession.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Introduction Pt. I: The Transformation of Authorship 1: The World Turned Upside Down: Sociopolitical Criticism in Puritan America 2: The Rise of a Free Press and the Erosion of a Public Sphere: The Zenger Case Reconsidered 3: Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and Republican Print Rationality 4: Liberalism and Republication: The Problem of Copyright for Authorship in America Pt. II: The Aesthetic Response 5: Crevecoeur and Strategies of Accommodation 6: Brackenridge and the Resistance to Textual Authority Pt. III: The Rhetoric of Fiction 7: Authorial Coquetry and the Early American Novel Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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