{"product_id":"the-transformation-of-authorship-in-america-9780226711232","title":"The Transformation of Authorship in America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  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","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036573598039,"sku":"9780226711232","price":65.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226711232.jpg?v=1750932403","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-transformation-of-authorship-in-america-9780226711232","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}