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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... Magazine (September, October, and November 1834 and Ianuary 1835). Rpt. The Collected Writings of Thomas DeQuincey. Ed. David Mason. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1854. W [The Selected Works of] William Wordsworth. Ed ...
... Magazine articles inaugurated the controversy and, in doing so, articulated some of the complexities that informed Romantic—period attitudes toward literary property.2 In Tait's Magazine, DeQuincey calls to public attention four ...
... Magazine essays, he distinguishes between two categories of plagiarism: “conscious” or culpable plagiarism and “unconscious” or merely aesthetic plagiarism. While both cases imply a species of literary failure within a text, only ...
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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 |