Faculty at the EMC
Mark Rose
(Ph.D., Harvard University, 1967)
Professor Emeritus, English Department
U. California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
tel: (805) 893-4294
fax: (805) 893-4622
email: mrose@english.ucsb.edu
(Ph.D., Harvard University, 1967)
Professor Emeritus, English Department
U. California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
tel: (805) 893-4294
fax: (805) 893-4622
email: mrose@english.ucsb.edu
Areas of Interest
- Renaissance Literature, dramatic and non-dramatic
- Spenser
- Shakespeare
- Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
- Legal and literary history in the Early Modern Period
| Books and Recent Articles |
- Heroic Love: Studies in Sidney and Spenser (Harvard UP, 1968)
- Golding's Tale (fiction) (Walker, 1972)
- Shakespearean Design (Harvard UP, 1972)
- Spenser's Art: A Companion to Book I of the Faerie Queen (Harvard UP, 1975)
- Alien Encounters: Anatomy of Science Fiction (Harvard UP, 1981)
- Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright (Harvard UP, 1993)
- Editor, Anthony and Cleopatra: A Collection of Critical Essays (Prentice-Hall, 1977)
- Editor, Science Fiction: A Collection of Critical Essays (Prentice-Hall, 1979)
- Editor, with George Slusser and George Guffey, Bridges to Science Fiction (S. Illinois UP, 1980)
- Editor, Shakespeare's Early Tragedies: A Collection of Critical Essays (Prentice-Hall, 1994)
- Editor, The Norton Shakespeare Workshop (CD-Rom) (W.W. Norton, 1998)
Current Projects
- Authors in Court: Scenes in the History of Literary Property (Harvard UP, contracted and in progress) - a book-length study of the history of copyright that focuses on six English and American cases in which authors appeared in court to assert rights of various kinds. The cases range over some 250 years of copyright history from Pope v. Curll (1741), in which Alexander Pope sued the bookseller Edmund Curll in connection with the unauthorized publication of his letters, to Salinger v. Random House (1987) in which, once again, an author's letters were the subject of litigation as J.D. Salinger sued to prevent the use of quotations from his letters in a biography of him. One theme of the book, as the Pope and Salinger cases suggest, is the tension between privacy and publicity that repeatedly occurs in the context of copyright litigation. Another is the process of dematerialization or abstraction that the history of copyright, which began simply as the right of a printer to publish one specified title, displays and that has contributed significantly to many of the problems related to the application of copyright law today.
Recent Courses Taught
- The Invention of Shakespeare
- Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
- Authorship--"What is an Author?"
- The History of Authorship
- Copyright and Society