The Birth and Death of the Author : A Multi-Authored History of Authorship in Print (Paperback)

Introduction: The Begetting and Forgetting of the Author Andrew J. Power (University of Sharjah, UAE) Chapter 1, C15th: Fathering Chaucer: Thoreau, Hoccleve, Lydgate, and the Invention of the First English Author Andrew Galloway (Cornell University) Chapter 2, C16th: Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Traces of Authorship Rory Loughnane (University of Kent) Chapter 3, C17th: Authorial Identity and Print in John Taylor’s Common Whore and Arrant Thiefe Pamphlets Edel Semple (University College Cork) Chapter 4, C18th: Samuel Richardson’s "Murdering Pen" and the End of the Novel Natasha Simonova (University of Oxford) Chapter 5, C19th: Melville’s ‘Bartleby’ and the Prefiguration of the Author’s Own Preference Not to Write William E. Engel (Sewanee, University of the South) Chapter 6, C20th: La Mort de l’Auteur: James Joyce and the Birth of Writing Brad Tuggle (University of Alabama) Chapter 7, C21st: Who is that Knocking on your Door?: Authorship, Print, and the Multimodal Comics of Grant Morrison in a Digital Age Darragh Greene (University College Dublin) Bibliography