The Transatlantic Materials of American Literature
During the antebellum period, British publishers increasingly brought out authorized and pirated editions of American fiction, poetry, and autobiographies from writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, and Hannah Flagg Gould. Katie McGettigan shows how the transatlantic circulation of these works played a formative role in shaping American authors’ careers, establishing the cultural value of U.S. writing and inspiring debates about the future of authorship, international copyright, and print culture.
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