Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: “Imperfect Title”
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: “Lady-Writers” and “Copyright, Authors, and Authorship” in Nineteenth-Century America
- 1 Authors, Wives, Slaves: Coverture, Copyright, and Authorial Dispossession, 1831–1869
- 2 “Suited to the Market”: Catharine Sedgwick, Female Authorship, and the Literary Property Debates, 1822–1842
- 3 “When I Can Read My Title Clear”: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Stowe v. Thomas Copyright Infringement Case (1853)
- 4 “Every body sees the theft”: Fanny Fern and Periodical Reprinting in the 1850s
- 5 A “Rank Rebel” Lady and Her Literary Property: Augusta Jane Evans and Copyright, the Civil War and After, 1861–1868
- Epilogue: Belford v. Scribner (1892) and the Ghost of Mary Virginia Terhune's Phemie's Temptation (1869); or, The Lessons of the “Lady-Writers” of the 1820s through the 1860s for Literary History and Twenty-First-Century Copyright Law
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: “Imperfect Title”
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: “Lady-Writers” and “Copyright, Authors, and Authorship” in Nineteenth-Century America
- 1 Authors, Wives, Slaves: Coverture, Copyright, and Authorial Dispossession, 1831–1869
- 2 “Suited to the Market”: Catharine Sedgwick, Female Authorship, and the Literary Property Debates, 1822–1842
- 3 “When I Can Read My Title Clear”: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Stowe v. Thomas Copyright Infringement Case (1853)
- 4 “Every body sees the theft”: Fanny Fern and Periodical Reprinting in the 1850s
- 5 A “Rank Rebel” Lady and Her Literary Property: Augusta Jane Evans and Copyright, the Civil War and After, 1861–1868
- Epilogue: Belford v. Scribner (1892) and the Ghost of Mary Virginia Terhune's Phemie's Temptation (1869); or, The Lessons of the “Lady-Writers” of the 1820s through the 1860s for Literary History and Twenty-First-Century Copyright Law
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005