Scandal Nation: Law and Authorship in Britain, 1750-1832Cornell University Press, 2003 - 242 páginas 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. |
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... Libel and slander - Great Britain - History . 3. Piracy ( Copyright ) -Great Britain - History . 4. Copyright infringement - Great Britain - History . 5. Literary forgeries and mystifications-- History . 6. Authorship - History . 7 ...
... of England 121 4. Libels of Empire : Mary Prince and British Slavery 172 Epilogue The Ends of National Scandal : Globalization 207 Works Cited 213 Index 235 Illustrations 1. Anne - Louis Girodet - Trioson , Ossian [ v ]
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of Sir Charles Grandison 20 | 20 |
Johnson Macpherson | 73 |
Catharine Macaulays | 121 |
Mary Prince and British Slavery | 172 |
Globalization | 207 |
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