The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship

505 Pages·2019·2.087 MB·English

by  Ingo Berensmeyer, Gert Buelens, Marysa Demoor

THE CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK OF LITERARY
AUTHORSHIP
This handbook surveys the state of the art in literary authorship
studies. Its 27 original contributions by eminent scholars offer
a multi-layered account of authorship as a defining element of
literature and culture. Covering a vast chronological range, Part
I considers the history of authorship from cuneiform writing to
contemporary digital publishing; it discusses authorship in ancient
Egypt, Greece, Rome, early Jewish cultures, medieval, Renaissance,
modern, postmodern, and Chinese literature. The second part
focuses on the place of authorship in literary theory, and on
challenges to theorizing literary authorship, such as gender and
sexuality, postcolonial and indigenous contexts for writing.
Finally, Part III investigates practical perspectives on the topic,
with a focus on attribution, anonymity and pseudonymity, plagiar-
ism and forgery, copyright and literary property, censorship, pub-
lishing and marketing, and institutional contexts.
ingo berensmeyer is Professor of Modern English Literature at
the University of Munich and a visiting professor at Ghent
University. His previous publications include Mendacity in Early
Modern Literature and Culture (co-edited with Andrew Hadfield,
2016),andoverseventyessaysincollectionsandjournals,including
NewLiteraryHistory,PoeticsToday,StudiesinEnglishLiterature1500–
1900,Anglia,andPoetica.
gert buelens is senior full Professor of English and American
Literature at Ghent University. His previous publications
include The Future of Trauma Theory (co-edited with Durrant
and Eaglestone, 2013), and over sixty essays in collections and
journals, including Dickens Quarterly, Wallace Stevens Journal,
Modern Philology, Texas Studies in Literature and Language,
Diacritics, Studies in the Novel, Textual Practice, Criticism, and
PMLA.
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marysa demoor is senior full Professor of English Literature at
GhentUniversityandalifememberofClareHall,Cambridge.Sheis
the author of Their Fair Share: Women, Power and Criticism in the
Athenaeum, from Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Katherine Mansfield,
1870–1920 (2000) and the editor of Marketing the Author: Authorial
Personae,NarrativeSelvesandSelf-Fashioning,1880–1930(2004).With
Laurel Brake, she edited The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth
Century: Picture and Press (2009) and the Dictionary of Nineteenth-
CenturyJournalism(2009).
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THE CAMBRIDGE
HANDBOOK OF LITERARY
AUTHORSHIP
edited by
INGO BERENSMEYER
GERT BUELENS
MARYSA DEMOOR
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Contents
ListofFigures pageviii
ListofContributors ix
Acknowledgments xi
ListofAbbreviations xii
1 Introduction 1
IngoBerensmeyer,GertBuelens,andMarysaDemoor
part i historical perspectives 11
2 AuthorshipinCuneiformLiterature 13
BenjaminR.Foster
3 AuthorshipinAncientEgypt 27
AntonioLoprieno
4 AuthorshipinArchaicandClassicalGreece 46
RuthScodel
5 AuthorshipinClassicalRome 64
ChristianBaduraandMelanieMöller
6 ConceptionsofAuthorshipinEarlyJewishCultures 81
MordechaiZ.Cohen
7 ModesofAuthorshipandtheMakingofMedievalEnglish
Literature 98
AndrewKraebel
8 ManuscriptandPrintCultures1500–1700 115
MargaretJ.M.Ezell
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vi Contents
9 TheEighteenthCentury:Print,Professionalization,and
DefiningtheAuthor 133
BettyA.Schellenberg
10 TheNineteenthCentury:IntellectualPropertyRights
and“LiteraryLarceny” 147
AlexisEasley
11 IndustrializedPrint:ModernismandAuthorship 165
SeanLatham
12 PostmodernistAuthorship 183
HansBertens
13 ChineseAuthorship 201
Kang-iSunChang
14 LiteraryAuthorshipintheDigitalAge 218
AdriaanvanderWeel
part ii systematic perspectives 235
15 LiteraryAuthorshipintheTraditionsofRhetoricandPoetics 237
KevinDunn
16 Authors,Genres,andAudiences:ARhetoricalApproach 253
JamesPhelan
17 TheAuthorinLiteraryTheoryandTheoriesofLiterature 270
JakobStougaard-Nielsen
18 Gender,Sexuality,andtheAuthor:FivePhasesofAuthorship
fromtheRenaissancetotheTwenty-FirstCentury 288
ChantalZabus
19 PostcolonialandIndigenousAuthorship 305
MitaBanerjee
part iii practical perspectives 323
20 Attribution 325
JohnBurrowsandHughCraig
21 AnonymityandPseudonymity 341
RobertJ.Griffin
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Contents vii
22 PlagiarismandForgery 354
JackLynch
23 AuthorshipandScholarlyEditing 371
DirkVanHulle
24 CopyrightandLiteraryProperty:TheInventionofSecondary
Authorship 384
DanielCook
25 Censorship 400
TrevorRoss
26 PublishingandMarketing 415
AndrewKing
27 Institutions:WritingandReading 429
JasonPuskar
SelectBibliography 444
Index 458
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Figures
3.1 AuthorshipinEgyptianliterature. page30
3.2 Textual“genres”inEgyptianliterature. 31
20.1 Rho-setscoresforforty-fourplaysbyMiddletonand 335
Shakespeare.
20.2 Rho-setscoresforfifty-oneplaysandplayportions, 337
includingfourtestplaysandTimonofAthensinthree
sections.
20.3 Rho-setscoresforthirty-threesegmentseachof500words, 338
takenfromfourtestplays.
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Contributors
christian badura,FreeUniversityofBerlin,Germany
mita banerjee,UniversityofMainz,Germany
ingo berensmeyer,UniversityofMunich,Germany
hans bertens,UniversityofUtrecht,TheNetherlands
gert buelens,GhentUniversity,Belgium
john burrows,UniversityofNewcastle,Australia
kang-i sun chang,YaleUniversity,NewHaven,USA
mordechai z. cohen,YeshivaUniversity,NewYork,USA
daniel cook,UniversityofDundee,UK
hugh craig,UniversityofNewcastle,Australia
marysa demoor,GhentUniversity,Belgium
kevin dunn,TuftsUniversity,Boston,USA
alexis easley,UniversityofSt.Thomas,Minnesota,USA
margaret j.m. ezell,TexasA&M,CollegeStation,USA
benjamin r. foster,YaleUniversity,NewHaven,USA
robert j. griffin,TexasA&M,CollegeStation,USA
andrew king,UniversityofGreenwich,UK
andrew kraebel,TrinityUniversity,SanAntonio,USA
sean latham,UniversityofTulsa,USA
antonio loprieno,UniversityofBasel,Switzerland
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