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Author:

DeSpain, Jessica, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiv, 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Book industries and trade--United States--History--19th century.
Book industries and trade--Great Britain--History--19th century.
English literature--History--United States--History--19th century.
American literature--History--United States--History--19th century.
Reprints (Publications)--History--History--19th century.
Books--History--History--19th century.
Authorship--History--19th century.
Copyright, International--History--19th century.
Books and reading--United States--History--19th century.
Books and reading--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies

ISBN:

1409432009 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781409432005 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)881910216

LCCN:

2014012046

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)