Theories of authorship and material culture provide the framework for this study. It maps Anglo-American authorship as it shifts from a theoretical to a more material approach to its study in contexts recognized as key to its development: the nineteenth-century literary market-place, twentieth-century experimentalism and postmodern culture.

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MARIA-SABINA ALEXANDRU Lecturer in Contemporary British and American Studies, University of Bucharest, Romania MICHAEL BELL Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK JOSEPH BROOKER Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK TERRY EAGLETON Professor of Cultural Theory, Department of English and American Studies, University of Manchester, UK DAVID PUNTER Professor of English, University of Bristol, UK TATIANA RAPATZIKOU Lecturer, Department of American Literature and Culture, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece VICTOR SAGE Professor of English, School of Literature and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, UK HELEN SMALL Fellow and University Lecturer in English Literature, Pembroke College, Oxford, UK

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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Authorship and its Contexts; K.Hadjiafxendi & P.Mackay PART I: NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERARY MARKET-PLACE The Author, the Editor and the Fissured Text: Scott, Maturin and Hogg; V.Sage 'George Eliot', the Literary Market-Place and Sympathy; K.Hadjiafxendi Liberal Editing in the Fortnightly Review and the Nineteenth Century; H.Small PART II: TWENTIETH -CENTURY MYTHOLOGIES OF AUTHORSHIP F.R. Leavis: The Writer, Language, History; M.Bell Mind that Crowd: Flann O'Brien's Authors; J.Brooker Authorship in the Writings and Films of William S. Burroughs; P.Mackay PART III: POSTMODERN CULTURE Postmodernism, Criticism and the Graphic Novel; D.Punter Authorial Identity in the Era of Electronic Technologies; T.Rapatzikou Towards a Politics of the Small Things: Arundhati Roy and the Decentralization of Authorship; M.Alexandru PART IV: AUTHORSHIP AND CRITICISM - The Decline of the Critic; T.Eagleton Further Reading Index