Tilar J. Mazzeo teaches English at Colby College.

"Mazzeo's new book is ... smart and insightful, and points out that eighteenth-century writers took a certain amount of borrowing for granted. What mattered was whether you were sneaky about it and, even more important, whether you improved upon what you took, by weaving it seamlessly into your own text and adding some new context or insight."-New York Times "The author has read prodigiously and provides a vast amount of material bearing on laws governing literary property, much of it obscure. She discusses in detail plagiarism charges against Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Clare that have often been dismissed or ignored. The bibliography is extensive."-Choice

• 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

Tilar J. Mazzeo teaches English at Colby College.

"Mazzeo's new book is ... smart and insightful, and points out that eighteenth-century writers took a certain amount of borrowing for granted. What mattered was whether you were sneaky about it and, even more important, whether you improved upon what you took, by weaving it seamlessly into your own text and adding some new context or insight."-New York Times "The author has read prodigiously and provides a vast amount of material bearing on laws governing literary property, much of it obscure. She discusses in detail plagiarism charges against Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Clare that have often been dismissed or ignored. The bibliography is extensive."-Choice

• 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

Tilar J. Mazzeo teaches English at Colby College.

"Mazzeo's new book is ... smart and insightful, and points out that eighteenth-century writers took a certain amount of borrowing for granted. What mattered was whether you were sneaky about it and, even more important, whether you improved upon what you took, by weaving it seamlessly into your own text and adding some new context or insight."-New York Times "The author has read prodigiously and provides a vast amount of material bearing on laws governing literary property, much of it obscure. She discusses in detail plagiarism charges against Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Clare that have often been dismissed or ignored. The bibliography is extensive."-Choice

• 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