03199cam a2200385 i 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700700030003400800410003701000170007802000300009502000270012503500130015204000280016504100080019304200080020104300120020905000230022108200140024410000340025824501120029226400660040430000230047033600260049333700280051933800270054750400690057450503520064352015490099565000660254465000670261065000530267765000400273065000430277020165927BJBSDDR20251104103548.0ta171206s2018    mdu      b    001 0 eng    a  2017058445  a9781421426310 (hardcover)  a1421426315 (hardcover)  a20165927  aDLCbengcDLCerdadDLC  aeng  apcc  ae-uk---14aPR 448bR826w 201800a820.9/0051 aRoss, Trevor Thornton,d1961-10aWriting in public : bliterature and the liberty of the press in eighteenth-century Britain /cTrevor Ross. 1aBaltimore, Maryland :bJohns Hopkins University Press,c2018.  a301 pages ;c24 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [239]-287) and index.0 aIntroduction : writing in public
Copyright. Literature in the public domain
The fate of style in an age of intellectual property
Defamation and privacy. What does literature publicize?
How criticism became privileged speech : the case of Carr v. Hood (1808)
Seditious libel. Literature and the freedom of mind
Epilogue : unacknowledged legislators  aBuilding upon his previous work on the emergence of "literature," Trevor Ross offers a history of how the public function of literature changed as a result of developing press freedoms during the period from 1760 to 1810. Writing in Public examines the laws of copyright, defamation, and seditious libel to show what happened to literary writing once certain forms of discourse came to be perceived as public and entitled to freedom from state or private control. 0Ross argues that-with liberty of expression becoming entrenched as a national value-the legal constraints on speech had to be reconceived, becoming less a set of prohibitions on its content than an arrangement for managing the public sphere. The public was free to speak on any subject, but its speech, jurists believed, had to follow certain ground rules, as formalized in laws aimed at limiting private ownership of culturally significant works, maintaining civility in public discourse, and safeguarding public deliberation from the coercions of propaganda. For speech to be truly free, however, there had to be an enabling exception to the rules. 0Since the late eighteenth century, Ross suggests, the role of this exception has been performed by the idea of literature. Literature is valued as the form of expression that, in allowing us to say anything and in any form, attests to our liberty. Yet, paradoxically, it is only by occupying no definable place within the public sphere that literature can remain as indeterminate as the public whose self-reinvention it serves. 0aLiterature and societyzGreat BritainxHistoryy18th century. 4aLiteratura y sociedadzGran Bretaña xHistoria ySiglo XVIII 0aCopyrightzGreat BritainxHistoryy18th century. 4aDerechos de autor zGran Bretaña  0aDemocracy and the artszGreat Britain.