The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship
The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship
Gert Buelens, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Marysa Demoor, University of Ghent
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, plagiarism and forgery, copyright and literary property, censorship, publishing and marketing and institutional contexts.
- The chapters are original work specifically written for the book by leading scholars
- Presents a one-stop guide to global literary authorship over the ages, ideal for scholars and advanced students of literature
- Authorship studies is a new and burgeoning area of literary research and this work responds to the previous lack of a wide-reaching comprehensive handbook in the field, and addresses a popular desire to keep talking about the biographical author
Reviews & endorsements
'The volume has a useful thematic bibliography allowing for further investigation of many of the topics covered here … This volume is recommended for those interested in the ways that authors interact with other parts of the book trade, including publishers and booksellers, and is very important for readers wanting to learn about the various meanings of authorship across time and place.' Catherine Armstrong, Publishing History
'Literary authorship entails much more than composing texts that form aesthetic wholes. A host of other elements factor into the process, and for those interested in the dynamics of the phenomenon, there is no better source to consult than this handbook, which provides a comprehensive survey of the burgeoning field of intellectual inquiry and looks at the cultural peregrinations of a species erroneously thought by many to be extinct - the author.' H. I. Einsohn, Choice
Product details
March 2021Paperback
9781316617946
503 pages
229 × 152 × 26 mm
0.729kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction Ingo Berensmeyer, Gert Buelens and Marysa Demoor
- Part I. Historical Perspectives:
- 2. Authorship in cuneiform literature Benjamin R. Foster
- 3. Authorship in Ancient Egypt Antonio Loprieno
- 4. Authorship in Archaic and Classical Greece Ruth Scodel
- 5. Authorship in Classical Rome Christian Badura and Melanie Möller
- 6. Conceptions of authorship in early Jewish cultures Mordechai Z. Cohen
- 7. Modes of authorship and the making of Medieval English literature A. B. Kraebel
- 8. Manuscript and print cultures 1500–1700 Margaret J. M. Ezell
- 9. The eighteenth century: print, professionalization, and defining the author Betty A. Schellenberg
- 10. The nineteenth century: intellectual property rights and 'literary larceny' Alexis Easley
- 11. Industrialized print: modernism and authorship Sean Latham
- 12. Postmodernist authorship Hans Bertens
- 13. Chinese authorship Kang-i Sun Chang
- 14. Literary authorship in the digital age Adriaan van der Weel
- Part II. Systematic Perspectives:
- 15. Literary authorship in the traditions of rhetoric and poetics Kevin Dunn
- 16. Authors, genres, and audiences: a rhetorical approach James Phelan
- 17. The author in literary theory and theories of literature Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
- 18. Gender, sexuality, and the author: five phases of authorship from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century Chantal Zabus
- 19. Postcolonial and Indigenous authorship Mita Banerjee
- Part III. Practical Perspectives:
- 20. Attribution John Burrows and Hugh Craig
- 21. Anonymity and pseudonymity Robert J. Griffin
- 22. Plagiarism and forgery Jack Lynch
- 23. Authorship and scholarly editing Dirk Van Hulle
- 24. Copyright and literary property: the invention of secondary authorship Daniel Cook
- 25. Censorship Trevor Ross
- 26. Publishing and marketing Andrew King
- 27. Institutions: writing and reading Jason Puskar.
