Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic PeriodUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2013 M04 23 - 256 pages In a series of articles published in Tait's Magazine in 1834, Thomas DeQuincey catalogued four potential instances of plagiarism in the work of his friend and literary competitor Samuel Taylor Coleridge. DeQuincey's charges and the controversy they ignited have shaped readers' responses to the work of such writers as Coleridge, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, and John Clare ever since. But what did plagiarism mean some two hundred years ago in Britain? What was at stake when early nineteenth-century authors levied such charges against each other? How would matters change if we were to evaluate these writers by the standards of their own national moment? And what does our moral investment in plagiarism tell us about ourselves and about our relationship to the Romantic myth of authorship? |
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... Print Culture 49 “The Slip-Shocl Muse”: Byron, Originality, and Aesthetic Plagiarism 86 Monstrosities Strung into an Epic: Travel Writing and the Defense of “Modern” Poetry 122 Poaching on the Literary Estate: Class, Improvement, and ...
... print culture and literary culture, between reviewer and poet, constitutive? Per— haps most importantly, has Romanticism's almost exclusive critical association with the values of self-legislating originality helped to obscure the ...
... culture and have not engaged consciously in “recovery” research, except in relation to the specific category of plagiarism.2 The early nineteenth-century discourse surrounding plagiarism, however much in need of being historicized at ...
... print-culture ownership that they represent. In recent years, composition specialists have focused with particular intensity on deconstructing the myth of the singular, autonomous author, and the foundational works in this criticism ...
... culture. As Paulina Kewes and the other contributors who respond to Ricks in her collection of essays Plagiarism in Early Modern England argue, understanding how plagiarism operated culturally in Renaissance and eighteenth-century ...
Contents
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3 Property and the Margins of Literary Print Culture | 49 |
Byron Originality and Aesthetic Plagiarism | 86 |
Travel Writing and the Defense of Modern Poetry | 122 |
Class Improvement and Enclosure | 144 |
Afterword | 182 |
Notes | 189 |
Bibliography | 211 |
Index | 227 |
Acknowledgments | 235 |