Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Preface ix
5. Chapter 1 Romantic Plagiarism and the Critical Inheritance 1
6. Chapter 2 Coleridge, Plagiarism, and Narrative Mastery 17
7. Chapter 3 Property and the Margins of Literary Print Culture 49
8. Chapter 4 “The Slip-Shod Muse”: Byron, Originality, and Aesthetic Plagiarism 86
9. Chapter 5 Monstrosities Strung into an Epic: Travel Writing and the Defense of “Modern” Poetry 122
10. Chapter 6 Poaching on the Literary Estate: Class, Improvement, and Enclosure 144
11. Afterword 182
12. Notes 189
13. Bibliography 211
14. Index 227
15. Acknowledgments 235