Anonymity, Corporate Authority, and the Archive: The Production of Authorship in Late-Victorian England

Buurma, Rachel Sagner

doi:10.2979/vic.2007.50.1.15

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“…In attending to the necessarily collaborative qualities of authorship, our intention is to expose the tension between this creative plurality and the apparent desire for, and creation of, a single authoritative voice. As we show, however, textual authority was often multiple and always negotiated and contested: it resided in, and depended on, assessments of individual credibility as well as the ‘corporate authority’ that the Admiralty and the Murray firm represented (Buurma 2007, 18).…”

Section: John Murray and The Production Of Exploration Narrativementioning

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Travels into print: authoring, editing and narratives of travel and exploration,c.1815–c.1857

Withers

Keighren

2011

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper examines the relationships between authorship and editing in the production of narratives of travel and exploration. The context to the paper is the widespread interest in exploration and travel writing in geography and related fields, and the materialist hermeneutic apparent in the conjunction of geography, book history and the history of science. Through assessment of archival and printed evidence relating to the authorship and editing of books of travel and exploration published by the leading British publisher, John Murray, the paper examines the redactive relationships between writer and editor-publisher, illustrates the means by which authors sought status in their words and explores how Murray authorised explorers' words and works. In addressing the complex connections between author and editor, manuscript and print, private correspondence and public audience, the paper has implications for researchers in geography interested in the specific relationships between writing and print, and in the general connections between geography, book history and the history of science.key words geography travel narratives materialist hermeneutics authorship editorial redaction exploration

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Section: John Murray and The Production Of Exploration Narrativementioning

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Travels into print: authoring, editing and narratives of travel and exploration,c.1815–c.1857

Withers

Keighren

2011

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Still, a stark depiction can help us understand how passages between the opposing 5. Items in the MLA bibliography indexed with the subject terms "author" or "authorship" were actually slightly greater in number in the 1990s than today, which seems, from a glance at titles, to reflect the state of the response to the Barthes-Foucault disruption. As examples of the discourse beyond Barthes and Foucault, see also Adams 2014, Benjamin 1978, Bennett 2005band 2005c, Bernesmeyer, Buelens, and Demoor 2019, Booth 1983, Bracha 2016, Buurma 2007, Dowling 2009, Fabian 2007, Garcia 1996, Gilbert and Gubar 2000(1976, Hochman 2001, Irwin 2002, Leary and Nash 2009, Nehamas 1987, Rohrbach 2020, West III 1988, Williams 2007, and Woodmansee 1994aand 1994b. Interestingly, "author" is not a term taken up in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (Williams 2014(Williams [1976) nor is it in the revised New Keywords (Bennett, Grossberg, and Morris 2005) -although the latter does contain an entry for "audience".…”

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Genius Trouble

Dean¹

2021

Textual Cultures

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This essay assesses the contradiction between the widespread critical acceptance of the post-structuralist mortification of authorship, on one hand, and the rise and continued purchase of authorship-focused scholarship, on the other. What seems to be missing is a theory of authorship that takes into account the fact that authors themselves have had to reckon with authorship as a construction, particularly the ideological emphasis on genius as it was commercialized during the “industrial era” of print publication. Several stories by Henry James that stage author-reader relations offer glimpses of his idea of authorship and suggest that, for him, authorial self-consciousness plays out as a queer performance.

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“…expresses the general principle of negativity in representational politics. (Warner 1990, 43) Obviously, the pragmatics of pseudonyms ("fictitious personae") cannot, in fact, be entirely reduced to anonymity, the absence of a personal author in printed language (see also Buurma 2007, Coleman 2012, Knuttila 2011, Nozawa 2012 for logics of anonymity often specifically opposed to pseudonymity in different nineteenth-century print and contemporary virtual cultures). For example, a nom de plume, which might well be regarded as a kind of pseudonym, involves assuming an identity as a writer without necessarily entailing anonymity at the same time.…”

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“…I am indebted to Shunsuke Nozawa for directing my attention to the way that being a "nobody" is itself a crucial way to engage in print culture both as writer and as one written about. One might, indeed, look at the process of becoming a famous "somebody" in print culture often requires a prior period of "selfemptying," of becoming a "nobody" (See Buurma 2007, Nozawa 2011.…”

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Strangers in a Strange Land

Manning¹

2012

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Where [sadauri] do you come from?' 'Where [sadável]? From Gaibotani, here in the mountains on the banks of the Terek.' 'Are you Georgian or Ossetian [osi]?' 'Why would I be an Ossetian [ovsí]? I am a Georgian, a Moxevian.' 'Your home is in a good place.' 'It's not so bad [gonjái].* It suits our poverty.' 'Water and air like this are happiness itself.' 'Hm!' laughed the Moxevian. 'What are you laughing at [icini]?' 'I laugh [vicíni] at the laughable. An empty stomach cannot be filled with those.' 'This big road will give you help.' 'What difference does a road make! It's only of use to him who has things bought or made himself to carry and sell.' 'Then you do not hire yourself out?' 'Why would we not? Of course we do.' 'Then you get money from hire.' 'We get it. It doesn't stay in the pocket, though; a Moxevian mountaineer is the prey of the Armenian. There's no food and drink in the house; what we earn goes to the dukan. (VI) But Chavchavadze's brief account of the economic role of the road

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Anonymity, Corporate Authority, and the Archive: The Production of Authorship in Late-Victorian England

Cited by 41 publications

References 10 publications

Travels into print: authoring, editing and narratives of travel and exploration,c.1815–c.1857

Travels into print: authoring, editing and narratives of travel and exploration,c.1815–c.1857

Genius Trouble

Strangers in a Strange Land

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