The matter of the text: Commerce, print culture, and the authority of the state in American copyright law

American Literary History

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-59

  McGill, Meredith L ^a  

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DOI: 10.1093/alh/9.1.21     Document Type: Article

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