ISBN: 9780226711232

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 lit… Más…

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 commodification of public expression.Rice shows that the rigorous censorship practiced by Puritan authorities conferred an implicit prestige on texts as civic interventions, helping to foster a vigorous and indigenous tradition of sociopolitical criticism. With special attention to the sudden emergence of the novel in post-revolutionary America, Rice reveals how the emergence of economic liberalism undermined the earlier tradition of political writing by transforming American authorship from an expression of individual civic conscience to a market-oriented profession.Includes discussions of the writings of Benjamin Franklin, Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Crèvecoeur, and Hugh Henry Brackenridge. Trade Books>Hardcover>Literature>Lit Studies>Lit History & Ref, University of Chicago Press Core >2<

ISBN: 9780226711232

Acknowledgments Introduction Pt. I: The Transformation of Authorship 1: The World Turned Upside Down: Sociopolitical Criticism in Puritan America 2: The Rise of a Free Press and the Erosi… Más…

Acknowledgments Introduction Pt. I: The Transformation of Authorship 1: The World Turned Upside Down: Sociopolitical Criticism in Puritan America 2: The Rise of a Free Press and the Erosion of a Public Sphere: The Zenger Case Reconsidered 3: Benjamin Franklin´s Autobiography and Republican Print Rationality 4: Liberalism and Republication: The Problem of Copyright for Authorship in America Pt. II: The Aesthetic Response 5: Crevecoeur and Strategies of Accommodation 6: Brackenridge and the Resistance to Textual Authority Pt. III: The Rhetoric of Fiction 7: Authorial Coquetry and the Early American Novel Afterword Notes Bibliography Index The Transformation of Authorship in America Buch (fremdspr.) gebundene Ausgabe 01.06.1997 Bücher>Fremdsprachige Bücher>Englische Bücher, Univ Of Chicago Pr, .199<

ISBN: 9780226711232

Hardback, [PU: The University of Chicago Press], Most critics and historians consider that the emergence of a free press liberated 18th century American authors. In this study, the author… Más…

Hardback, [PU: The University of Chicago Press], Most critics and historians consider that the emergence of a free press liberated 18th century American authors. In this study, the author seeks to overturn this view, arguing that the emergence of economic liberalism transformed American authorship into a market-oriented profession., Literary Studies: C 1500 To C 1800<

ISBN: 9780226711232

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