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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... Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. WWSL The Complete Works of Walter Savage Landor. Ed. Stephen Wheeler. 16 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1936. Preface This book reconsiders allegations that the Romantic poets were viii Abbreviations.
... Landor, and Matthew Lewis were all publicly accused of plagiarism in the periodical press.13 The celebrated plagiarisms of Byron, in particular, were the topic of a controversy that was far more extensive than any contemporary attention ...
... Landor, a dialogue between two writers in which one or both used the reviewers as mouthpieces. It is not difficult to find instances in which prominent writers of the period were accused of plagiarism, and, seen in aggregate, the ...
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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 |