Authorship and contracts Flashcards
When was Richardson’s Pamela published?
1740
When did the Copyright Act come into force?
1710
What does Roger L’Estrange say about culpability of authors and books in ‘Considerations and proposals in order to the regulation of the press’?
‘Persons are pardon’d, but not Books’
What is wrong with the Stationers, according to Roger L’Estrange in ‘Considerations and proposals’?
They ‘prefer their private gain before the welfare of the public’
When was ‘Considerations and proposals in order to the regulation of the press’ published?
1663
What position was Roger L’Estrange granted in 1663?
Surveyor of the press
When was Daniel Defoe’s ‘An essay on the regulation of the press’ published?
1704
How does Defoe characterise the time of the Licensing Act?
When a ‘Book was damned for the Author, not the Author for the Book’
What is the government able to do if it has control of licensing, according to Defoe?
‘to refuse the other Side the liberty of Replying.’
How does Defoe propose to crack down on libel?
Create a law ‘to make the last seller the Author, unless the Name of the Author, Printer, or Book-seller be affix’d to the book’
What does Roger L’Estrange say about people who are found with seditious books?
They should be ‘Punish’d as the Author of the said Book’
What phrase of L’Estrange’s evinces a murky sense of authorship?
Stationers and printers are ‘the Principal Authors of those Mischiefs’ when seditious books are published
When was Defoe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’ published?
1719
When was Defoe’s ‘Moll Flanders’ published?
1722
When was John Locke’s ‘Two Treatises of Government’ published?
1689
When was Thomas Hobbes’s ‘Leviathan’ published?
1651
How does John Locke describe the marriage contract?
A ‘voluntary agreement’
What does a civil dispute need in a contractual relationship, according to Locke?
a ‘known and indifferent judge’, ‘to decide controversies’
What must an individual do, according to Hobbes, in order to gain ‘security’ from the state?
‘lay down’ a right
What does Richardson’s editor say that grants him greater rights than his authorial self in ‘Pamela’’s preface?
‘an Editor may reasonably be supposed to judge with an Impartiality which is rarely to be met with in an Author towards his own Works.’
What does Bachman say happens to Pamela when she marries Mr. B?
She is ‘transferred from one patriarchal institution (the family) to another (marriage).’
What is Pamela described as by ‘J.B.D.F’ in the preface?
‘English Bullion’ to complete with foreign ‘dross’
What does the ‘affectionate friend’ refer to Pamela as?
‘our Sterling Substance’
What does Schmidgen refer to the novel as, in terms of property law?
‘a spatial figure for the landed estate’ which ‘set the parameters for the communal imagination’
What is the value of ‘Shamela’, according to its full title?
‘Necessary to be had in all Families’
What does Moll say to her brother before they get engaged (and she tells him she’s his sister)?
‘what Conditions will you make with me upon the opening of this affair to you?’
What does Pamela say in the letters containing Mr. B’s proposal/contract?
‘I shall write to you my Answer against his Articles’
What does Langford say about the role of the reader in ‘Moll Flanders’?
‘To read this novel, we must continually engage in a process of discrimination, so that we can hear two voices instead of one speaking through her narrative’
What is the opening condition of Richardson’s preface?
‘If to Divert and Entertain, and at the same time to Instruct, and Improve the Minds of the YOUTH of both Sexes’
What moment in the preface shows Richardson’s wish to control the reception of his text?
‘he is therefore confident of the favourable Reception which he boldly bespeaks for this little Work’
What does the editor of ‘Moll Flanders’ permit for the reader?
‘we must be content to leave the Reader to pass his own Opinion upon the ensuing Sheets, and take it just as he pleases’
What is the role of the author, according to chapter 1 of ‘Joseph Andrews’
In ‘communicating such valuable patterns to the world’
What does Fielding’s narrator refer to Joseph Andrews as, as regards his heritage?
‘autokopros’
What does the bookseller say to Parson Adams, critiquing the moralisation of the book trade?
‘the copy that sells best will always be the best copy’
What analogy does Fielding use, to make the author in ‘Joseph Andrews’ appear like a common tradesman?
‘it becomes an author generally to divide a book, as it does a butcher to joint his meat’
What line in ‘Joseph Andrews’ shows the production of a piece of intellectual property?
‘Let those, therefore, that describe lions and tigers, and heroes fiercer than both, raise their poems or plays with the simile of Joseph Andrews’
What does Martin Battestin say about the creation of the novel?
‘from the rude and often hilarious conjunction of Richardson’s feminine sensibilities and Fielding’s robust masculinity, the modern novel was born’
When did the Licensing Act expire?
1695
What does Mr. B say about characterisation?
‘You have given me a character, Pamela, and blame me not that I act up to it’
What does Michael Seidel say about suspension of disbelief in Robinson Crusoe?
‘Readers tentatively grant him fictional license to proceed with his record’, with ‘scurry points’ occurring where readers are forced to ‘reconstrue the contracts under which they are proceeding’
What does Squire Booby do in ‘Shamela’?
He goes to ‘have a Book made about him and [Shamela]’ by someone ‘who does that sort of business for folks’
What sentence in the preface to ‘Moll Flanders’ complicates notions of authorship?
‘an Author must be hard put to it to wrap it up so clean’
