Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: The Matter of the Text -- 1. Commerce, Print Culture, and the Authority of the State in American Copyright Law -- Discontinuities in the Genealogy of Authorship -- Materiality and the Common Law in Wheaton v. Peters -- Dissemination and the State -- "Perfect Title": American Copyright and the Letter of the Law -- 2. International Copyright and the Political Economy of Print -- Legalizing Piracy -- Representing the Nation: The Campaign for International Copyright -- Decentering the Market: Defending the System of Reprinting -- Maintaining Decentralization: Reprinting and the Syncopation of the National Imaginary -- 3. Circulating Media: Charles Dickens, Reprinting, and the Dislocation of American Culture -- Property in Dickens: The 1842 Tour -- National Debt and National Identity: The American Circulation of American Notes for General Circulation -- Representing Decentralization: The Narrative Structure of American Notes -- Circulation and Slavery -- Martin Chuzzlewit, the Social Order, and the Medium of Print -- 4. Unauthorized Poe -- Embracing Secondarity -- Dislocating Reference -- Elaboration, Eclecticism, and the Deferral of Authorship -- Authentic Facsimiles -- 5. Poe, Literary Nationalism, and Authorial Identity -- James Russell Lowell and the "Be-Mirrorment" of Poe -- Removing the Anonymous: Young America and the Control of Dissemination -- Narratives of Absolute Possession and Dispossession: Authorial Identity in "The Little Longfellow War" -- Disowning Ownership: Poe's Evasion of Identity at the Boston Lyceum -- 6. Suspended Animation: Hawthorne and the Relocation of Narrative Authority -- The Uses of Obscurity -- "Sleeping Beauty in the Waxworks" Monotony and Repose in Early Hawthorne -- Monotony and Declension: The Properties of Narrative in The House of the Seven Gables.

"Time-Stricken": Narrative Disruption and Self-Indictment -- "Sordid Contact": Addressing Ordinary Life and the Disenchantments of Address -- Authorship and the Power of Humiliation -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.