Construction of Authorship

Martha Woodmansee is Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University and Director of the Society for Critical Exchange.Peter Jaszi is Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, The American University.

• Acknowledgments Introduction On the Author Effect: Recovering Collectivity / Martha Woodmansee On the Author Effect: Contemporary Copyright and Collective Creativity / Peter Jaszi Touching Words: Helen Keller, Plagiarism, Authorship / Jim Swan Author/izing the Celebrity: Publicity Rights, Postmodern Politics, and Unauthorized Genders / Rosemary J. Coombe The Pragmatics of Genre: Moral Theory and Lyric Authorship in Hegel and Wordsworth / Thomas Pfau The Interdisciplinary Future of Copyright Theory / Alfred C. Yen Milton's Contract / Peter Lindenbaum From Rights in Copies to Copyright: The Recognition of Authors' Rights in English Law and Practice in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / John Feather The Author in Court: Pope v. Curll (1741) / Mark Rose Authority and Authenticity: Scribbling Authors and the Genius of Print in Eighteenth-Century England / Marlon B. Ross Charles Dickens, International Copyright, and the Discretionary Silence of Martin Chuzzlewit / Gerhard Joseph International Copyright: Structuring "the Condition of Modernity" in British Publishing / N. N. Feltes Sanctioning Voice: Quotation Marks, the Abolition of Torture, and the Fifth Amendment / Margreta de Grazia Broadcast Copyright and the Bureaucratization of Property / Thomas Streeter Authorship and the Concept of National Cinema in Spain / Marvin D'Lugo "Don't Have to DJ No More": Sampling and the "Autonomous" Creator / David Sanjek Beaumont and/or Fletcher: Collaboration and the interpretation of Renaissance Drama / Jeffrey A. Masten Common Properties of Pleasure: Texts in Nineteenth Century Women's Clubs / Anne Ruggles Gere Reading and Writing the Renaissance Commonplace Book: A Question of Authorship? / Max W. Thomas Collaborative Authorship and the Teaching of Writing / Andrea A. Lunsford and Lisa Ede The Author in Copyright: Notes for the Literary Critic / Monroe E. Price and Malla Pollack Appendix

"This important collection of essays begins to develop a coherent history of copyright and intellectual property doctrine and the place of both in organizing and policing cultural production. This volume should be read by everyone in cultural studies interested either in the history of authorship or in the ways electronic production is changing how we think about the processes of artistic creation."-Janice Radway, Duke University