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Taking liberties with the author: selected essays from the English Institute

Meredith L. McGill
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  • Introduction: Someone Said MEREDITH L. MCGILL
    • The Persistence of the Author
    • Taking After Foucault
    • Taking Liberties
    • Thrift and Proliferation
  • 1 Insinuating Authors RITA COPELAND
    • Introduction
    • Classical Rhetoric
    • Modern Political Oratory
    • An Anatomy of Insinuatio
    • Insinuatio in Medieval Commentary
    • The Shame of the Literary Author: Statius's Thebaid and Its Medieval Fortunes
    • Insinuative Intertext: Statius, Dante, Chaucer
    • Conclusion
  • 2 Death and the Author IAN DUNCAN
    • Preamble
    • The Death and Rebirth of the Author
    • Temptations to Be Entertained and Resisted
    • Author-Machine
    • Putting On a Face
    • The Visible Hand
    • Convention, Archive, Dump
    • Late Style
  • 3 “A Shape All Light” ADELA PINCH
    • Introduction
    • “We Who Love Shelley”
    • A Good Shape
    • A Good Sound
    • Fade to White
  • 4 The Paradox of Theatrical Authorship and Caryl Churchill's Collaborative Practice JEAN E. HOWARD
    • A Prehistory: The Fantasy of Shakespeare as Only Begetter
    • Caryl Churchill, Socialism, Authorship
    • Light Shining in Buckinghamshire
    • Churchill and Joint Stock Practices
    • Coda
  • 5 The Conscience of a Corporation: Toys United and Pixar's Assertion of “Cultural” Authorship JEROME CHRISTENSEN
    • Corporate Speech and Corporate Liability
    • Corporations Speak as Citizens United
    • Hollywood's Nonliability
    • The “Culture” of the Disney-Pixar Merger Agreement
    • Pinocchio's Transformational Logic
    • A Real Toy
    • Jiminy Cricket's Story
    • Pixar, the Conscience of Disney
  • Notes
    • Introduction: Someone Said
    • 1. Insinuating Authors
    • 2. Death and the Author
    • 3. “A Shape All Light”
    • 4. The Paradox of Theatrical Authorship and Caryl Churchill's Collaborative Practice
    • 5. The Conscience of a Corporation: Toys United and Pixar's Assertion of “Cultural” Authorship
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Scott, Waverley Novels, Vol. 1, General Preface, i.

Scott, Waverley Novels, Vol. 1, General Preface, i.

Figure 10: Scott, Waverley Novels, Vol. 1, General Preface, i.

J. G. Lockhart, The Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, One-volume edition (London: A. & C. Black, 1896), Frontispiece.

J. G. Lockhart, The Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, One-volume edition (London: A. & C. Black, 1896), Frontispiece.

Figure 6: J. G. Lockhart, The Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, One-volume edition (London: A. & C. Black, 1896), Frontispiece.

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Chambers, Illustrations of the Author of Waverley, Frontispiece: detail.

Chambers, Illustrations of the Author of Waverley, Frontispiece: detail.

Figure 4: Chambers, Illustrations of the Author of Waverley, Frontispiece: detail.

Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake. A Poem, Eighth edition (Edinburgh: Ballantyne, 1810), Frontispiece.

Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake. A Poem, Eighth edition (Edinburgh: Ballantyne, 1810), Frontispiece.

Figure 3: Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake. A Poem, Eighth edition (Edinburgh: Ballantyne, 1810), Frontispiece.

Scott, Waverley Novels, Vol. 1, Advertisement (opening).

Scott, Waverley Novels, Vol. 1, Advertisement (opening).

Figure 9: Scott, Waverley Novels, Vol. 1, Advertisement (opening).

Title page of Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (London, 1648).

Title page of Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (London, 1648).

Figure 23: Title page of Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (London, 1648).

Title page, Shirley Carson Jenney, The Fortunes of Heaven (London: Arthur H. Stockwell, 1937).

Title page, Shirley Carson Jenney, The Fortunes of Heaven (London: Arthur H. Stockwell, 1937).

Figure 17: Title page, Shirley Carson Jenney, The Fortunes of Heaven (London: Arthur H. Stockwell, 1937).

Sir Walter Scott, Waverley Novels, Vol. 1: Waverley (Edinburgh: Cadell, 1829), Frontispiece and Title page.

Sir Walter Scott, Waverley Novels, Vol. 1: Waverley (Edinburgh: Cadell, 1829), Frontispiece and Title page.

Figure 7: Sir Walter Scott, Waverley Novels, Vol. 1: Waverley (Edinburgh: Cadell, 1829), Frontispiece and Title page.

Jiminy Cricket opens the film-as-book, Pinocchio, dir. Norman Ferguson (Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1940).

Jiminy Cricket opens the film-as-book, Pinocchio, dir. Norman Ferguson (Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1940).

Figure 32: Jiminy Cricket opens the film-as-book, Pinocchio, dir. Norman Ferguson (Burbank CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1940).

Shelley, “The World's Wanders,” The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Frederick Warne, 1902), 709, with inserted handwritten stanza by Arthur Ficke.

Shelley, “The World's Wanders,” The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Frederick Warne, 1902), 709, with inserted handwritten stanza by Arthur Ficke.

Figure 19: Shelley, “The World's Wanders,” The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Frederick Warne, 1902), 709, with inserted handwritten stanza by Arthur Ficke.

Sir Walter Scott, Journal, Title page. MS facsimile from The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, from the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1890).

Sir Walter Scott, Journal, Title page. MS facsimile from The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, from the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1890).

Figure 12: Sir Walter Scott, Journal, Title page. MS facsimile from The Journal of Sir Walter Scott, from the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1890).

Robert Chambers, Illustrations of the Author of Waverley: Being notices and anecdotes of real characters, scenes, and incidents supposed to be described in his works, Second edition (Edinburgh: Anderson, 1825), Frontispiece.

Robert Chambers, Illustrations of the Author of Waverley: Being notices and anecdotes of real characters, scenes, and incidents supposed to be described in his works, Second edition (Edinburgh: Anderson, 1825), Frontispiece.

Figure 2: Robert Chambers, Illustrations of the Author of Waverley: Being notices and anecdotes of real characters, scenes, and incidents supposed to be described in his works, Second edition (Edinburgh: Anderson, 1825), Frontispiece.

Title page of the quarto edition of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (London, 1594), on which the author's name does not appear.

Title page of the quarto edition of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (London, 1594), on which the author's name does not appear.

Figure 22: Title page of the quarto edition of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (London, 1594), on which the author's name does not appear.

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Sir Walter Scott, Journal. Last page, April 14, 1832. MS facsimile, from The Journal of Sir Walter Scott.

Sir Walter Scott, Journal. Last page, April 14, 1832. MS facsimile, from The Journal of Sir Walter Scott.

Figure 14: Sir Walter Scott, Journal. Last page, April 14, 1832. MS facsimile, from The Journal of Sir Walter Scott.

Scott, Waverley Novels, Vol. 1. General Preface, ii–iii.

Scott, Waverley Novels, Vol. 1. General Preface, ii–iii.

Figure 11: Scott, Waverley Novels, Vol. 1. General Preface, ii–iii.

Title page of Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (The First Folio) (London, 1623).

Title page of Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (The First Folio) (London, 1623).

Figure 21: Title page of Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (The First Folio) (London, 1623).

Scott, Waverley Novels, Vol. 1, Dedication to George IV.

Scott, Waverley Novels, Vol. 1, Dedication to George IV.

Figure 8: Scott, Waverley Novels, Vol. 1, Dedication to George IV.

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