Geneva v. St Petersburg: two concepts of literary property and the material lives of books in Under Western Eyes

Towheed, Shafquat (2010). Geneva v. St Petersburg: two concepts of literary property and the material lives of books in Under Western Eyes. In: Weedon, Alexis ed. The History of the Book in the West: 1914-2000. The History of the Book in the West: A Library of Critical Essays, 5 (5). Aldershot: Ashgate.

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Abstract

This chapter examines the impact of the development of international copyright law in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries upon authorial practice in the period through a close examination of Joseph Conrad's novel, 'Under Western Eyes' (1911). The first half of the chapter provides a detailed survey and critical commentary on the expanding domain and extent of international copyright law in this period, while the second half offers a close examination of the textual matter (and its copyright status) circulating within Conrad's novel.

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• Item ORO ID
• 19996
• Item Type
• Book Section
• ISBN
• 0-7546-2783-7, 978-0-7546-2783-8
• Extra Information
• This chapter was originally published in the journal 'Book History', 10 (2007), 169-191, DOI: 10.1353/bh.2007.0010.
• Keywords
• international copyright law; Joseph Conrad; Under Western Eyes; Geneva; St Petersburg; Anglo-American publishing; The Chace Act; censorship in Russia; serialisation; the history of reading
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > English & Creative Writing
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
• Research Group
• History of Books and Reading (HOBAR)
• Depositing User
• Shafquat Towheed