id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15602 Tallent, Ed Reading Acts: U.S. Readers’ Interactions with Literature, 1800–1950. Eds. Barbara Ryan and Amy M. Thomas. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Pr., 2002. 289p. alk. paper, $36 (ISBN 1572331828). LC 2001-5651. 2003-05-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1870 171 46 Copyrights and Copywrongs is a cultural his- tory of copyright law, the self-proclaimed goal of which is to explain how essential the original foundations of American copyright law are to the educational, po- litical, artistic, and literary culture of this country. The author makes an eloquent argument for copyright law as it was origi- nally intended, the purpose of which was to encourage creativity and cultural ex- pression, the proliferation of ideas, and the sharing of information. cache/crl-15602.pdf txt/crl-15602.txt