TY - BOOK AU - Greene,Jody TI - The Trouble with Ownership: Literary Property and Authorial Liability in England, 166-173 T2 - Material Texts SN - 9780812238624 U1 - 820.9/3554/09032 PY - 2011///] CY - Philadelphia : PB - University of Pennsylvania Press, KW - Authorship KW - History KW - 17th century KW - 18th century KW - Copyright KW - England KW - English literature KW - History and criticism KW - Early modern KW - 500-1700 KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - Liability (Law) KW - Great Britain KW - Literature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - Cultural Studies KW - Law KW - Medieval and Renaissance Studies N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; PART I. The Trouble with Ownership --; Chapter 1. Authorship and the Regulation of the Press --; Chapter 2. The Trials of Ownership: Finding the Author in Court --; PART II. The Dangerous Fate of Authors --; Chapter 3. Daniel Defoe, the Act of Anne, and the Obligations of Ownership --; Chapter 4. Revenge of the Straw Woman: Disowning The Dunciad --; Chapter 5. Hostis Humani Generis: Owning Polly --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; Acknowledgments; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Copyright and intellectual property issues are intricately woven into any written work, but the precise nature of this relationship has plagued authors, printers, and booksellers for centuries. What does it mean to own the products of our intellectual labors in our own time? And what was the meaning three centuries ago, when copyright laws were first put into place?Jody Greene argues that while "owning" one's book is critical to the development of modern notions of authorship, studies of authorial property rights have in fact lost sight of the most critical valence of owning in early modern England: that is, owning up to or taking responsibility for one's work. Greene puts forth what she calls a "paranoid theory of copyright," under which literary property rights are a means of state regulation to assign responsibility for printed works, to identify one person who will step forward and claim the work in exchange for the right to reap the benefits of the literary marketplace. Blending research from legal, historical, and literary archives and drawing on the troubled authorial careers of figures such as Roger L'Estrange, Elizabeth Cellier, Daniel Defoe, John Gay, and Alexander Pope, The Trouble with Ownership looks to the literary culture of early modern England to reveal the intimate relationship between proprietary authorship and authorial liability UR - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812202090 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812202090 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812202090/original ER -