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The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship

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Editors:
Ingo Berensmeyer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen
Gert Buelens, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Marysa Demoor, University of Ghent

Ingo Berensmeyer, Gert Buelens, Marysa Demoor, Benjamin R. Foster, Antonio Loprieno, Ruth Scodel, Christian Badura, Melanie Möller, Mordechai Z. Cohen, A. B. Kraebel, Margaret J. M. Ezell, Betty A. Schellenberg, Alexis Easley, Sean Latham, Hans Bertens, Kang-i Sun Chang, Adriaan van der Weel, Kevin Dunn, James Phelan, Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen, Chantal Zabus, Mita Banerjee, John Burrows, Hugh Craig, Robert J. Griffin, Jack Lynch, Dirk Van Hulle, Daniel Cook, Trevor Ross, Andrew King, Jason Puskar

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Date Published: March 2021
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isbn: 9781316617946

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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
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'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
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Product details
- Date Published: March 2021
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316617946
- length: 503 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 26 mm
- weight: 0.729kg
- availability: Available
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.
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Editors
Ingo Berensmeyer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen
Ingo Berensmeyer is Professor of Modern English Literature at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and a visiting professor at Ghent University. His previous publications include Mendacity in Early Modern Literature and Culture (co-edited with Andrew Hadfield, 2016), and over seventy essays in collections and journals, including New Literary History, Poetics Today, Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, Anglia, and Poetica.
Gert Buelens, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
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.
Marysa Demoor, University of Ghent
Marysa Demoor is senior full Professor of English Literature at Ghent University and a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She is 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, Narrative Selves and Self-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-Century Journalism (2009).
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Ingo Berensmeyer, Gert Buelens, Marysa Demoor, Benjamin R. Foster, Antonio Loprieno, Ruth Scodel, Christian Badura, Melanie Möller, Mordechai Z. Cohen, A. B. Kraebel, Margaret J. M. Ezell, Betty A. Schellenberg, Alexis Easley, Sean Latham, Hans Bertens, Kang-i Sun Chang, Adriaan van der Weel, Kevin Dunn, James Phelan, Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen, Chantal Zabus, Mita Banerjee, John Burrows, Hugh Craig, Robert J. Griffin, Jack Lynch, Dirk Van Hulle, Daniel Cook, Trevor Ross, Andrew King, Jason Puskar