The Author's Due

Acknowledgments

I The Regulated Crisis of New Media

1. AN INTRODUCTION TO BIBLIOGRAPHICAL POLITICS

Theories of authorship; resisting Foucault;
institutional origins of intellectual property;
Millar v, Taylor; Donaldson v. Becket

2. THE REFORMATION OF THE PRESS:
PATENT, COPYRIGHT, PIRACY

The piracies of John Wolfe; the regulation of
the Elizabethan book trade; guild structure
in transition to capitalism

3. MONOPOLIES COMMERCIAL AND DOCTRINAL

Italics and the genetics of intellectual
propertyl mercantilist protectionsim and
early modern technology, I

INTERCHAPTER: POSSESIVE AUTHORSHIP

II From Protectionism to Property

4. INGENUITY AND THE MERCANTILE MUSE

Mercantilist protectionism, II; Darcy v.
Aleyn; "Intervention" and "Genius"

5. MONOPOLIZING CULTURE: TWO CASE STUDIES

Davenant v. Hurdis; Harington's toilet
George Wither asserts authorial property

6. PERSONALITY AND PRINT: THE GENETICS OF
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

"Press agency": personhood in book culture;
censorship and intellectual property;
Areopagitica

7. MILTON'S TALENT: THE EMERGENCE OF
AUTHORIAL COPYRIGHT

Restoration press regulation and the rhetoric
of authorship; plagiarism and the Whig
Milton; Swift, Pope, and the Statue of Anne

III The Laughable Term

8. AUTHENTIC REPRODUCTIONS

Shakespeare and international copyright;
modernist technologies of reproduction and
the instituational history of the book; the Wise
forgeries

Notes
Index