Literary copyright reform in early Victorian England : the framing of the 1842 Copyright Act, Catherine Seville

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Contents: 1. Introduction -- The 1842 Act -- passage and position -- Copyright -- its nature and history -- Talfourd and his aims -- Conflicting rationales -- Alternatives to copyright -- a profession of authorship? -- 2. Petitions and Copyright -- Petitioning -- parliamentary history and background -- Petitions -- forms and formalities -- Petitions -- volume and subjects -- 3. Critics in Parliament -- The radical nexus -- Political cross-currents -- Brougham -- Macaulay -- 4. Critics in the Book Trade I: Print Workers and their Allies -- Printers -- The dispute spreads -- journeymen 1839-40 -- The process of diffusion -- 5. Critics in the Book Trade II: Publishing and Publishers -- The book trade and authors -- Cheap publications -- the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge -- Cheap publications -- the book trade -- Cooperation and organisation -- The campaign against the bills -- 6. The Campaign in the Daily Press -- London dailies -- Evening papers -- Conclusion -- 7. Authors and the Beginnings of Authors' Organisations -- Southey -- Wordsworth -- campaign manager -- 8. The Making of the Case for the Bill -- Petitions -- those in favour -- The argument in the periodicals -- 9. Conclusion -- App. I. Chronology of the bills -- App. II. Successive versions of the bill -- App. III. The Copyright Act 1842

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