Early Modern Authorship and Prose Continuations [electronic resource] : Adaptation and Ownership from Sidney to Richardson /
Simonova, N.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Works of Another Hand2. The 'Perfect-Unperfect' Arcadia3. Approaches to Authorship in the Arcadia Continuations4. Rogues and Pilgrims: Two Restoration Bestsellers5. Samuel Richardson vs. the 'High Life Men'6. Closing the Circle: Clarissa and Sir Charles GrandisonConclusion: The Fall of the SequelNotesBibliographyIndex.
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.
British literature.
Literature, Modern.
Mass media.
Law.
Fiction.
Commercial law.
Literature-Philosophy.
British and Irish Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
IT Law, Media Law, Intellectual Property.
Fiction.
Commercial Law.
Literary Theory.