American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 Gabeba Baderoon This is the story of

This is the story of Anastasia

Massachusetts

in a remarkable twist

while unfolding in the extreme context of slavery

American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 Gabeba Baderoon This is the story ofThe antebellum period has long been identified with the belated emergence of a truly national literature. And yet, as Meredith L. McGill argues, a mass market for books in this period was built and sustained through what we would call rampant literary piracy: a national literature developed not despite but because of the systematic copying of foreign works. Restoring a political dimension to accounts of the economic grounds of antebellum literature,