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  • Chapter 1 - Authorship, Book History, and the Effects of Artifacts

  • from Part I - A History of Herbals
  • Sarah Neville, Ohio State University
  • Book:
    Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade
    Published online:
    23 December 2021
    Print publication:
    06 January 2022, pp 55-88
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    This chapter broadens Foucault’s ideas of the author-function to include such textual progenitors as stationers, printers, and booksellers. It argues that authorship is a mode of self-fashioning and highlights the ways that the sociology of truth demands that others recognize one’s authorial and expert claims over a knowledge domain like natural history. It explains why Adrian Johns’s concept of stationer “credit” is of limited use and why his conflation of plagiarism and piracy confuses two separate issues of impropriety that undergo radical changes in the sixteenth century. It suggests making a “bibliographic turn” to remedy Johns’s interpretation of Steven Shapin’s “social history” and better account for bibliographic scholarship.