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Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period

Tilar J. Mazzeo

2011,2007,2013,2006

Overview

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?In Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period, Tilar Mazzeo historicizes the discussion of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century plagiarism and demonstrates that it had little in common with our current understanding of the term. The book offers a major reassessment of the role of borrowing, textual appropriation, and narrative mastery in British Romantic literature and provides a new picture of the period and its central aesthetic contests. Above all, Mazzeo challenges the almost exclusive modern association of Romanticism with originality and takes a fresh look at some of the most familiar writings of the period and the controversies surrounding them.

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc,University of Pennsylvania Press
• Subject: 18th century / 19th century / Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Criticism and interpretation / Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788–1824 / Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Criticism and interpretation / Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772–1834 / Criticism and interpretation / Cultural Studies / English poetry / English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh / European / Great Britain / History / History and criticism / Intellectual property / Intellectual property -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century / Intellectual property -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century / Language & Literature / LITERARY CRITICISM / LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh / Literature / Literature (Scholarly) / Plagiarism / Plagiarism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century / Plagiarism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century / Romanticism / Romanticism -- Great Britain / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 -- Criticism and interpretation / Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792–1822 / Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation / Wordsworth, William, 1770–1850
• ISBN: 9780812239676, 0812239679, 0812202732, 9780812202731