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The Transformation of Authorship in America

The Transformation of Authorship in America( )
Author: Rice, Grantland S.
ISBN:978-0-226-71123-2
Publication Date:Jun 1997
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $134.95
Book Description:

Did the emergence of a free press liberate eighteenth-century American authors? Most critics and historians have assumed so. In a study certain to force a rethinking of early American literary culture, Grantland S. Rice overturns this dominant view. Rice argues that the lapse of Puritan censorship, the consolidation of copyright law, and the explosion of a commercial print culture confronted writers in the new United States with a striking predicament: the depoliticization and...
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