American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 Gabeba Baderoon the Mercurius affair

the Mercurius affair

Ithaca is the island home to which the hero returns after twenty years of war and perilous adventures

This is the story of Anastasia

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American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 Gabeba Baderoon the Mercurius affairThe antebellum period has long been identified with the belated emergence of a truly national literature. And yet, as Meredith L. McGill argues, a mass market for books in this period was built and sustained through what we would call rampant literary piracy: a national literature developed not despite but because of the systematic copying of foreign works. Restoring a political dimension to accounts of the economic grounds of antebellum literature,