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by: Kathryn Temple See Larger Image Our Price: $52.50 Prices subject to change. Used Price: $5.44 Third Party New Price: $8.40 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 346.410482 EAN: 9780801440427 ISBN: 0801440424 Label: Cornell University Press Manufacturer: Cornell University Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 2003-01 Publisher: Cornell University Press Sales Rank: 704284 Studio: Cornell University Press Editorial Review: Product Description: Kathryn Temple argues that eighteenth-century Grub Street scandals involving print piracy, forgery, and copyright violation played a crucial role in the formation of British identity. Britain's expanding print culture demanded new ways of thinking about business and art. In this environment, print scandals functioned as sites where national identity could be contested even as it was being formed. Temple draws upon cases involving Samuel Richardson, Samuel Johnson, Catherine Macaulay, and Mary Prince. The public uproar around these controversies crossed class, gender, and regional boundaries, reaching the Celtic periphery and the colonies. Both print and spectacle, both high and low, these scandals raised important points of law, but also drew on images of criminality and sexuality made familiar in the theater, satirical prints, broadsides, even in wax museums. Like print culture itself, the 'scandal' of print disputes constituted the nation-and resistance to its formation. Print transgression destabilized both the print industry and efforts to form national identity. Temple concludes that these scandals represent print's escape from Britain's strenuous efforts to enlist it in the service of nation. Browse for similar items by category: Literature - Humanities - New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - English Literature Literature - Humanities - New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS History - Humanities - New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS Law - New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS New & Used Textbooks - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General AAS