Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Imitation Is Suicide 1
4. Part I. Copy-Writing
5. Chapter 1. Imitatio Franklin, or the American Example 19
6. Chapter 2. Phillis Wheatley’s Dependent Harmonies 46
7. Part II. Emulation and Ethics
8. Chapter 3. Reproducing David Rittenhouse 85
9. Chapter 4. The Republican Girl and the Spirit of Emulation 116
10. Part III. Critiques and Affirmations
11. Chapter 5. The Horrors of the Republican Machine 159
12. Chapter 6. The Copyist Moby-Dick 192
13. Notes 217
14. Bibliography 267
15. Index 295
16. Acknowledgments 303