353 pages Text(s) by Susan Stewart 22.9 × 15.2 cm Language: English Hardback Publisher: Oxford University Press First edition 1991
First edition, first printing of Susan Stewart’s study of authorship, authenticity and the limits imposed on representation. Through literary forgery, fabricated folklore, the imposture of Thomas Chatterton, graffiti and pornography, Stewart examines how writing becomes subject to claims of ownership, originality and legal authority.
Published in New York by Oxford University Press in 1991. Hardback in the original illustrated dust jacket; x + 353 pages, with illustrations, bibliographical references and index. The copyright page retains the complete number line beginning with 1. A substantial contribution to literary and cultural criticism, with particular relevance to collections concerned with the relationship between language, law and public expression.
