This book examines how debates over copyright law in the United States during the
nineteenth century, particularly over the lack of an international copyright law, intersected …

Editing has always been a culturally embedded and inter-pretive activity, in the sense that it
involves decisions that determine how a text is read. Usually such decisions remain all but …

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kearns, Michael S., 1947–Writing for the
street, writing in the garret: Melville, Dickinson, and private publication/Michael Kearns. p …

o one possesses the exclusive right to permit, withhold permission, or charge fees for
permissions to quote from Emily Dickinson's texts. Newly available documents at Brown …

Two Emily Dickinson poems published by St. Nicholas, a prestigious chil-dren's magazine,
stand as centerpieces of a larger effort to market Dickinson posthumously as" children's …

Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson's supposed failure to spearhead the Emily Dickinson
publication effort after the poet's death remains a sticking point in Dickinson scholarship, the …

Abstract My dissertation addresses Emily Dickinson's neglected periodical poems of the
1890s. In examining these poems, it (1) updates and recasts the narrative of Dickinson's …

Abstract “Negotiating Copyright: Authorship and the Discourse of Literary Property Rights in
Nineteenth-Century America” examines how debates over copyright law in the United States …

Emily DickinsonVs Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller, features a
section titled “Poems Transcribed by Others” that contains poems with no original …

Abstract In 1862, Emily Dickinson initiated a correspondence with Thomas Wentworth
Higginson, a prominent man of letters and radical reformer whose essays she had read and …