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Author Temple, Kathryn, 1955-

Title Scandal nation : law and authorship in Britain, 1750-1832 / Kathryn Temple
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 242 pages) : illustrations
Contents Printing like a post-colonialist: the Irish piracy of Sir Charles Grandison -- Ossian's embrace: Johnson, Macpherson, and the public domain -- Nation engendered: Catharine Macaulay's remarkable moving letter and the history of England -- Libels of empire: Mary Prince and British slavery
Summary "Kathryn Temple argues that eighteenth-century Grub Street scandals involving print piracy, forgery, and copyright violation played a crucial role in the formation of British identity. Britain's expanding print culture demanded new ways of thinking about business and art. In this environment, print scandals functioned as sites where national identity could be contested even as it was being formed." "Temple draws upon cases involving Samuel Richardson, Samuel Johnson, Catharine Macaulay, and Mary Prince. The public uproar around these controversies crossed class, gender, and regional boundaries, reaching the Celtic periphery and the colonies. Both print and spectacle, both high and low, these scandals raised important points of law but also drew on images of criminality and sexuality made familiar in the theater, satirical prints, broadsides, even in wax museums." "Like print culture itself, the "scandal" of print disputes constituted the nation - and resistance to its formation. Print transgression destabilized both the print industry and efforts to form national identity. Temple concludes that these scandals represent print's escape from Britain's strenuous efforts to enlist it in the service of nation."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-234) and index
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Subject Authors and publishers -- Great Britain -- History
Libel and slander -- Great Britain -- History
Piracy (Copyright) -- Great Britain -- History
Copyright infringement -- Great Britain -- History
Literary forgeries and mystifications -- History
Authorship -- History
Scandals -- Great Britain -- History
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Authors and publishers
Authorship
Copyright infringement
Libel and slander
Literary forgeries and mystifications
Piracy (Copyright)
Scandals
Literarisches Leben
Skandal
Schriftsteller
Urheberrecht
Literatur
Literarische Fälschung
Auteurschap.
Ongeoorloofde reproductie.
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Englisch.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501717628
1501717626