Nineteenth-century transatlantic reprinting and the embodied book / Jessica DeSpain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeSpain, Jessica, author.

Series:

Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Book industries and trade--United States--History--19th century.

Book industries and trade.

Book industries and trade--Great Britain--History--19th century.

English literature--Publishing--United States--History--19th century.

English literature.

American literature--Publishing--United States--History--19th century.

American literature.

Reprints (Publications)--Publishing--History--19th century.

Reprints (Publications).

Books--Pirated editions--History--19th century.

Books.

Authorship--History--19th century.

Authorship.

Copyright, International--History--19th century.

Copyright, International.

Books and reading--United States--History--19th century.

Books and reading.

History.

Books--Pirated editions.

Publishing.

American literature--Publishing.

English literature--Publishing.

United States.

Books and reading--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xiv, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]

Contents:

Introduction: Steaming across the pond: books, bodies, and citizenship in nineteenth-century transatlantic culture

Here goes Boz

only a shilling!: the monstrous general circulation of American notes

Claiming kindred with all the world: Susan Warner's The wide, wide world and its British reprints

Restaging intimacy: the pamphlet reproductions of Fanny Kemble's Georgian journal

Whitman's democratic marrow: Democratic vistas within a British working class cheap series

Conclusion: The transatlantic book after international copyright: the arts and crafts respond to an Anglo-American alliance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409432005

1409432009

OCLC:

881910216