Characters Before Copyright: The Rise and Regulation of Fan Fiction in Eighteenth-Century Germany

by Matthew H Birkhold

Situated between the decline of the privilege system and the rise of copyright, literary borrowing in eighteenth-century Germany has long been characterized as unregulated. Studying fan fiction, however, reveals an array of tacit rules governing the creation and consumption of literature, while also uncovering conceptions of literary property and authorship that scholars have overlooked. Characters before Copyright: The Rise and Regulation of Fan...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198831978
• ISBN13: 9780198831976
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"