Social Authorship and the Advent of Print
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: October 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780801877377
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Publishing industry; Social history; c 1600 to c 1700; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Labor; Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: This collection of essays looks at the material conditions of being an author at the turn of the seventeenth century and at literary culture immediately preceding the institution of copyright law in Britain.