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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... essay “Can We Be Historical Ever? Some Hopes for a Dialectical Model of Historical Self-Consciousness” engages directly the problem of historical impossibility in criticism.3 In the face of our inevitable failure to view the past as the ...
... essay, for example, James Porter argued for two “poles” of authorship, one intertextual and collaborative and the other autonomous and “Romantic,” and advocated for the displacement of Romantic models in pedagogical theory. Rebecca ...
... essays Plagiarism in Early Modern England argue, understanding how plagiarism operated culturally in Renaissance and eighteenth-century Britain is a descriptive position rather than a prescriptive one. Indeed, the same can be said of ...
... Essay Supplementary to the Preface” (1815) of The Lyrical Ballads when he distinguished “new” litera— ture from the simply “novel” or “popular,” writing that “genius is the introduction of a new element into the intellectual universe ...
... essay “ 'In Pleasing Memory of All He Stole': Plagiarism and Literary Detraction, 1747-1785.”24 Examining attitudes toward plagiarism at midcentury and in the context of the Lauder controversy, in which Milton was posthumously charged ...
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 |