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Authorship and contracts Flashcards

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When was Richardson’s Pamela published?

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1740

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When did the Copyright Act come into force?

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1710

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What does Roger L’Estrange say about culpability of authors and books in ‘Considerations and proposals in order to the regulation of the press’?

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‘Persons are pardon’d, but not Books’

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What is wrong with the Stationers, according to Roger L’Estrange in ‘Considerations and proposals’?

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They ‘prefer their private gain before the welfare of the public’

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When was ‘Considerations and proposals in order to the regulation of the press’ published?

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1663

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What position was Roger L’Estrange granted in 1663?

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Surveyor of the press

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When was Daniel Defoe’s ‘An essay on the regulation of the press’ published?

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1704

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How does Defoe characterise the time of the Licensing Act?

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When a ‘Book was damned for the Author, not the Author for the Book’

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What is the government able to do if it has control of licensing, according to Defoe?

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‘to refuse the other Side the liberty of Replying.’

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How does Defoe propose to crack down on libel?

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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’

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What does Roger L’Estrange say about people who are found with seditious books?

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They should be ‘Punish’d as the Author of the said Book’

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What phrase of L’Estrange’s evinces a murky sense of authorship?

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Stationers and printers are ‘the Principal Authors of those Mischiefs’ when seditious books are published

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When was Defoe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’ published?

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1719

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When was Defoe’s ‘Moll Flanders’ published?

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1722

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When was John Locke’s ‘Two Treatises of Government’ published?

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1689

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When was Thomas Hobbes’s ‘Leviathan’ published?

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1651

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How does John Locke describe the marriage contract?

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A ‘voluntary agreement’

17
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What does a civil dispute need in a contractual relationship, according to Locke?

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a ‘known and indifferent judge’, ‘to decide controversies’

18
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What must an individual do, according to Hobbes, in order to gain ‘security’ from the state?

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‘lay down’ a right

19
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What does Richardson’s editor say that grants him greater rights than his authorial self in ‘Pamela’’s preface?

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‘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.’

20
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What does Bachman say happens to Pamela when she marries Mr. B?

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She is ‘transferred from one patriarchal institution (the family) to another (marriage).’

21
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What is Pamela described as by ‘J.B.D.F’ in the preface?

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‘English Bullion’ to complete with foreign ‘dross’

22
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What does the ‘affectionate friend’ refer to Pamela as?

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‘our Sterling Substance’

23
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What does Schmidgen refer to the novel as, in terms of property law?

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‘a spatial figure for the landed estate’ which ‘set the parameters for the communal imagination’

24
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What is the value of ‘Shamela’, according to its full title?

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‘Necessary to be had in all Families’

25
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What does Moll say to her brother before they get engaged (and she tells him she’s his sister)?

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‘what Conditions will you make with me upon the opening of this affair to you?’

26
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What does Pamela say in the letters containing Mr. B’s proposal/contract?

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‘I shall write to you my Answer against his Articles’

27
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What does Langford say about the role of the reader in ‘Moll Flanders’?

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‘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’

28
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What is the opening condition of Richardson’s preface?

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‘If to Divert and Entertain, and at the same time to Instruct, and Improve the Minds of the YOUTH of both Sexes’

29
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What moment in the preface shows Richardson’s wish to control the reception of his text?

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‘he is therefore confident of the favourable Reception which he boldly bespeaks for this little Work’

30
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What does the editor of ‘Moll Flanders’ permit for the reader?

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‘we must be content to leave the Reader to pass his own Opinion upon the ensuing Sheets, and take it just as he pleases’

31
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What is the role of the author, according to chapter 1 of ‘Joseph Andrews’

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In ‘communicating such valuable patterns to the world’

32
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What does Fielding’s narrator refer to Joseph Andrews as, as regards his heritage?

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‘autokopros’

33
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What does the bookseller say to Parson Adams, critiquing the moralisation of the book trade?

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‘the copy that sells best will always be the best copy’

34
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What analogy does Fielding use, to make the author in ‘Joseph Andrews’ appear like a common tradesman?

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‘it becomes an author generally to divide a book, as it does a butcher to joint his meat’

35
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What line in ‘Joseph Andrews’ shows the production of a piece of intellectual property?

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‘Let those, therefore, that describe lions and tigers, and heroes fiercer than both, raise their poems or plays with the simile of Joseph Andrews’

36
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What does Martin Battestin say about the creation of the novel?

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‘from the rude and often hilarious conjunction of Richardson’s feminine sensibilities and Fielding’s robust masculinity, the modern novel was born’

37
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When did the Licensing Act expire?

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1695

38
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What does Mr. B say about characterisation?

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‘You have given me a character, Pamela, and blame me not that I act up to it’

39
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What does Michael Seidel say about suspension of disbelief in Robinson Crusoe?

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‘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’

40
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What does Squire Booby do in ‘Shamela’?

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He goes to ‘have a Book made about him and [Shamela]’ by someone ‘who does that sort of business for folks’

41
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What sentence in the preface to ‘Moll Flanders’ complicates notions of authorship?

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‘an Author must be hard put to it to wrap it up so clean’

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