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Plagiarism and literary property in the Romantic period

Were the Romantic poets plagiarists, and did plagiarism have the same meaning two hundred years ago as it has today? Tilar J. Mazzeo 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
eBook, English, ©2007
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, ©2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xiv, 236 pages)
9780812202731, 0812202732
859162309
List of AbbreviationsPreface1. Romantic Plagiarism and the Critical Inheritance2. Coleridge, Plagiarism, and Narrative Mastery3. Property and the Margins of Literary Print Culture4. "The Slip-Shod Muse": Byron, Originality, and Aesthetic Plagiarism5. Monstrosities Strung into an Epic: Travel Writing and the Defense of "Modern" Poetry6. Poaching on the Literary Estate: Class, Improvement, and EnclosureAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments
In English