The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship

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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.
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...

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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 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 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).

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...

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