Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship Hardback: 43 (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 43) - Hardcover

Loewenstein

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521812178 ISBN 13: 9780521812177

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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"One of the crucial contributions Loewenstein makes to Ben Jonson studies involves his untangling of the competitive efforts of printers and stationers to corner the rights to Jonson's texts...Loewenstein's careful reconstruction of Jonson's intense and fractious history with his printers and the complex "story of proprietary negotiation" surrounding the Second Folio of 1640 adds to our understanding of Jonson's singular possessiveness about his texts." Renaissance Quarterly

"Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship develops a gripping narrative about the serendipitous convergence of institutional competition, intellectual concern, and individual desire." Sixteenth Century Journal

"This, in short, is a stunning study." Studies in English Literature

"On every page of this book, readers will find something stimulating and challenging." Modern Philology

Biografía del autor:

Joseph Loewenstein is Professor of English Literature at Washington University, St Louis, Missouri.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521812178
• ISBN 13: 9780521812177
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 236