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The Plagiarism Allegation in English Literature from Butler to Sterne

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  • © 2010

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  1. Richard Terry

    1. Northumbria University, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Richard Terry
    Pages 1-9

  3. ‘Plagiarism’: The Emergence of a Literary Concept

    • Richard Terry
    Pages 10-23

  4. Plagiarism, Authorial Fame and Proprietary Authorship

    • Richard Terry
    Pages 24-45

  5. Plagiarism and the Burden of Tradition in Dryden and Others

    • Richard Terry
    Pages 46-58

  6. Plagiarism and Sufficiency in the English ‘Battle of the Books’

    • Richard Terry
    Pages 59-79

  7. Pope and Plagiarism

    • Richard Terry
    Pages 80-97

  8. Johnson and the Lauder Affair

    • Richard Terry
    Pages 98-116

  9. The Plagiarism Allegation and the Female Author

    • Richard Terry
    Pages 117-132

  10. Plagiarism, Imitation and Originality

    • Richard Terry
    Pages 133-151

  11. Sterne: The Plagiarist as Genius

    • Richard Terry
    Pages 152-168

  12. Epilogue

    • Richard Terry
    Pages 169-171

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 172-215
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About this book

Contributing to the growth in plagiarism studies, this timely new book highlights the impact of the allegation of plagiarism on the working lives of some of the major writers of the period, and considers plagiarism in relation to the emergence of literary copyright and the aesthetic of originality.

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  • Northumbria University, UK

    Richard Terry

About the author

Richard Terry is currently Professor of Eighteenth-Century English Literature at Northumbria University, UK, having worked for many years previously at the University of Sunderland. He has written numerous articles on aspects of eighteenth-century literature. His monograph Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past 1660-1781 was published in 2001.

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