McGINNIS, Reginald (dir.), Originality and Intellectual Property in the French and English Enlightenment, New York, Routledge (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature), 2008, 250 p.
ISBN 978-0-415-96288-9
RÉSUMÉ
Are legal concepts of intellectual property and copyright related toartistic notions of invention and originality? Do literary and legalscholars have anything to learn from each other, or should the legaldebate be viewed as separate from questions of aesthetics? Bridgingwhat are usually perceived as two distinct areas of inquiry, thisinterdisciplinary volume begins with a reflection on the "origins" ofliterary and legal questions in the Enlightenment to consider theirramifications in the post-Enlightenment and contemporary world. Tyingin to the growing scholarly interest in connections between law andliterature, on the one hand, and to the contemporary interrogation of"originality" and "authorship," on the other hand, the present volumefurthers research in the field by providing a dense study of the legaland historical context to re-examine our current assumptions aboutsupposed earlier Enlightenment and Romantic ideals of individualauthorship and originality.
TABLE DES MATIÈRES
Introduction Reginald McGinnis 1. Plagiarism and Paternity in Dryden's Adaptations Robert W. McHenry, Jr. 2. Kidnapped and Counterfeit Characters: Eighteenth-Century Fan Fiction, Copyright Law, and the Custody of Fictional Characters Elizabeth F. Judge 3. Copyright, Originality, and the Public Domain in Eighteenth-Century England Simon Stern 4. On Plagiarism, Originality, Textual Ownership and Textual Responsibility: The Case of Jacques le fataliste Anne Sechin 5. "Odd scratches and marks": Thomas Gainsborough and the Idiosyncrasy of the Brush Cristina S. Martinez 6. Byron and the Scandal of Paternity: Anonymity, Plagiarism, and the Natural Rights of Authors Tilar J. Mazzeo 7. Originality in the Enlightenment and Beyond John Vignaux Smyth
BIOGRAPHIE
Reginald McGinnis is Associate Professor of French at the University of Arizona. His publications include a book on Baudelaire, La Prostitution sacrée (Paris: Belin, 1994), as well as articles in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, l'Atelier du roman, PO&SIE, Cahiers de l'Herne and the Romanic Review.