...This chapter addresses the issues implicated when the text in question is a public persona constructed by an individual rather than a more conventionally understood work of authorship. The issue regarding the application of moral rights to personas is not so much whether personas are sufficiently...

...This chapter challenges three conventional explanations concerning the originality of Auerbach's authorship: the unavailability of books, the poor state of scholarship and intellectual dialogue, and detachment as a precondition for critical thinking. It shows that the catalyst for Mimesis...

... that women writers were aware of the winnowing of literature to exclude sentimental fiction, the introduction reevaluates popular sentimental novels and contends that these works enable a reconsideration of female authorship, of women’s literary history, and even of the history of literature. Canon formation...

...This chapter traces how the literary transformations of the later eighteenth century shaped how Charlotte Smith imagined her way into authorship. Alienated from established literary coteries and doubly dispossessed by copyright and coverture, Smith casts herself as a literary exile whose poverty...

... authorship genius fame celebrity British novel sentimental novel eighteenth century Heav’n knows, I never would repine, Though fortunes fiercest frowns were mine,— If Fate would grant that o’er my tomb One little Laurel wreath, might bloom, And Mem’ry, sometimes wander near...

...This chapter explores the relationship between authorship and textual integrity. An author's ability to safeguard the integrity of her texts is explained as a fundamental component of authorship morality. A complete view of the creative process embraces widely held foundational norms of authorship...

...This chapter develops the theory of the intrinsic dimension of creativity that is used throughout the remainder of this book. Drawing from psychological and theological sources, as well as personal narratives of authors, it illustrates that authorship largely is the product of “inner labor...

...This chapter discusses works of authorship that are not written by a single known author such as anonymous works, works written under a pseudonym, and works for hire under copyright law. If the purpose of providing enhanced textual integrity protection is to safeguard the author's message, it would...

...This chapter proposes how the law in the United States can be reformulated to incorporate measures manifesting a greater sensitivity to authors' needs in maintaining the integrity of their texts. The challenge is to formulate a set of reforms that will incorporate authorship morality through new...

... of publishing and had far-reaching consequences not only for the future of print culture, but also for the practice of authorship. This book looks at how various elements of the contemporary publishing milieu exerted pressure on James's production, particularly its composition, themes, and reception. By way...

... for a new understanding of sentimental fiction as a self-historicizing and highly self-conscious genre, Sentimental Memorials sheds new light on sentimental novels, on female authorship, and on the history of the transformations reshaping literature at the end of the eighteenth century....

... explores authorial intentions and meaning, as well as the self-perception of authorship and the act of writing in Me'irat 'Einayim. Isaac ben Samuel of Akko abbreviating his own name in writing authorial intent exegesis and authorial intent intention meaning Naḥmanidean authorial...

...This chapter examines a relatively uncharted area within the study of American intellectual property law—the role of human rights and authorship norms. The history of the International Bill of Human Rights demonstrates that although there may not have been a universal consensus as to whether moral...

...Translation projects provided women an opportunity to engage in literary culture and textual production during periods when authorship was confined to men. Translation enabled women to participate in intellectual debate and literally determine the terms of the argument through their translating...

...This book contends that changing definitions of state power in the late Romantic period propelled authors to revisit the work of literature as well as the profession of authorship. Traditionally, critics have seen the Romantics as imaginative geniuses and have viewed the supposedly less imaginative...