"modern authorship" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when discussing the current trends and practices in writing and publishing. Example: "The rise of self-publishing platforms has greatly influenced modern authorship, giving independent writers more control and opportunities in the industry."
The Author's Due locates the formative period of modern authorship in a long stretch of time.
If I were a betting man, I'd say Isaacson is riding the cusp of what will eventually be a staple of modern authorship.
Ultimately, Faithful Translators calls for a reconsideration of the apparent simplicity of "faithful" translations and aims to reconfigure perceptions of early modern authorship, translation, and women writers.
Ben Jonson and Possessive Authorship is more trained on the much less discussed matter of what early modern authorship felt like to writers and how those feelings contributed to the thematics and texture of their works.
During the period of early modern authorship, he understands and argues, this modern notion is available and indeed insistent it is pressed by a number of people and tends to become more pressing; but it fails of general social currency for lack of an institutional basis.
Only with the 'incipience of modern notions of authorship' in the Renaissance and the rise of copyright legislation in the 18th century did such borrowing take on a dimension of unforgivable moral turpitude.
Jody Greene argues that while "owning" one's book is critical to the development of modern notions of authorship, studies of authorial property rights have in fact lost sight of the most critical valence of owning in early modern England: that is, owning up to or taking responsibility for one's work.
Thus we discount and misunderstand Peter Lombard's achievement if we evaluate it in light of modern notions of authorship and originality.
The Author's Due is especially concerned to explain the emergence of a modern notion of authorship, linked as this was with modern concepts of literary and intellectual property.
On the one hand, we clearly have an effort to move away from the (modern) model of single authorship, which would have ideas and work flowing from a single, identifiable source.
In any case it is clear that in the early Archaic Age epic poems were not attributed authorship in the modern sense; they were regarded as traditional tales retold by living bards.
