Women Proprietors of Copyright in England, 1675-1775 - Paperback
by Leah Orr
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Availability:In StockContributor:Leah OrrSeries:Mini-Monographs in Literary and Cultural StudiesPublish date:8/14/2025Pages:92
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004737914ISBN-10:900473791XUPC:9789004737914Book Category:Literary Criticism, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:LinguisticsSize:9.25 x 6.10 x 0.24 inchesWeight:0.3395Product ID:SCB2V5P7VE
How did women in early modern England protect their investments in copyrights and realize profits from them? This new study explores the ways that women who owned copyright sought to turn manuscripts into money and protect their investments in intellectual property for themselves and their posterity. Through an analysis of previously unpublished archival sources and a new examination of print sources, this study shows that women copyright proprietors contributed to the establishment of copyright as a sellable commodity at a time when it was still undefined. Women Proprietors of Copyright charts a new history of copyright and women's labor in the book trade at a crucial period of its development.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004737914ISBN-10:900473791XUPC:9789004737914Book Category:Literary Criticism, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:LinguisticsSize:9.25 x 6.10 x 0.24 inchesWeight:0.3395Product ID:SCB2V5P7VE
Leah Orr is Professor of English at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. She works on fiction, women writers, and the book trade in the long eighteenth century and is the author of two books, most recently Publishing the Woman Writer in England, 1670-1750 (2023).
Publisher: Brill
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