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Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Reprinting and the Embodied Book (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Reprinting and the Embodied Book (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies
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Until the Chace Act in 1891, no international copyright law existed
between Britain and the United States, which meant publishers were
free to edit text, excerpt whole passages, add new illustrations,
and substantially redesign a book's appearance. In spite of this
ongoing process of transatlantic transformation of texts, the
metaphor of the book as a physical embodiment of its author
persisted. Jessica DeSpain's study of this period of textual
instability examines how the physical book acted as a major form of
cultural exchange between Britain and the United States that called
attention to volatile texts and the identities they manifested.
Focusing on four influential works"Charles Dickens's American Notes
for General Circulation, Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World, Fanny
Kemble's Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, and Walt
Whitman's Democratic Vistas"DeSpain shows that for authors,
readers, and publishers struggling with the unpredictability of the
textual body, the physical book and the physical body became
interchangeable metaphors of flux. At the same time, discourses of
destabilized bodies inflected issues essential to transatlantic
culture, including class, gender, religion, and slavery, while the
practice of reprinting challenged the concepts of individual
identity, personal property, and national identity.
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