Ben Jonson and possessive authorship
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Ben Jonson and possessive authorship
（Cambridge studies in Renaissance literature and culture, 43）
Cambridge University Press, 2002
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Includes index
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What is the history of authorship, of invention, of intellectual property? Joseph Loewenstein describes the fragmentary and eruptive emergence of a key phase of the bibliographical ego, a specifically Early Modern form of authorial identification with printed writing. In the work of many playwrights and non-dramatic writers - and especially that of Ben Jonson - that identification is tinged, remarkably, with possessiveness. This 2002 book examines the emergence of possessive authorship within a complex industrial and cultural field. It traces the prehistory of modern copyright both within the monopolistic practices of London's acting troupes and its Stationers' Company and within a Renaissance cultural heritage. Under the pressures of modern competition, a tradition of literary, artistic and technological imitation began to fissure, unleashing jealous accusations of plagiarism and ingenious new fantasies of intellectual privacy. Perhaps no-one was more creatively attuned to this momentous transformation in Early Modern intellectual life than Ben Jonson.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1. An introduction to bibliographical biography
- 2. Community properties
- 3. Upstart crows and other emergencies
- 4. Jonson, Martial and the mechanics of plagiarism
- 5. Scripts in the marketplace: Jonson and editorial repossession
- 6. Afterword: the second folio
- Index.
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