Index

Adams, Percy, 109

Addison, Joseph, 82

Altieri, Charles, xii

anonymous publication, 83, 109–11

Augustan literature, 12, 14. See also neoclassical aesthetics

authorship: assumptions regarding solitary genius, ix, xi, xiii, 6–7, 16, 30, 182, 186–88; commercial or professional, ix, xii, 54–62, 66, 75, 81, 85, 95–96, 123–24, 144, 166–75; poststructuralist theories of, xi, xiii, 1, 6–7, 147, 186–88; pre-Romantic constructions of, xiii, 1. See also gender

ballads, 49, 54, 70–85. See also Wordsworth, William

Barrell, John, 157

Barthes, Roland, 6, 47–48, 196–97 n.27

Bayley, Peter, 15–6, 103, 119, 147–49, 152, 207–8 n.10

Beach, Joseph Warren, 46

Beattie, James, 178

Beaumont, Francis, and John Fletcher, 151

Beckford, William, 108, 111, 116

Bennett, Andrew, 85, 153

Bently, Lionel, 11

Birns, Nicholas, 137

Blackstone, William, 51–53

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, countess of, 116, 119–21

Bloom, Harold (The Anxiety of Influence), 136

Bloomfield, Robert, 179

Bonjour, Adrien, 46, 56

Boruchoff, David, 182, 187

Bostetter, Edward, 30, 195 n.12

Bradley, A. C, 3, 190 n.2

Brewer, William, 180

Brown, Capability, 145

Brownlow, Timothy, 145–46

Brun, (Sophie Christiane) Friederike, 18–19, 45–46, 50, 55–57, 62

Burgher, Gottfried August, 75, 82

Burke, Edmund, 15

Burke, Séan, xiii

Burns, Robert, 176

Byron, George Gordon, lord: accused of plagiarism, x, xii, 2, 8, 41, 44, 73, 86, 106, 144–45, 147; concern with textual unity, 128, 130; conflict with William Wordsworth, 44, 86–87, 94–96, 106–7, 119, 144, 147; debts in Childe Harold, 94–107, 111, 144; debts to Coleridge, 91–94, 96–97, 100–101, 110, 116; debts to Continental literature, 104–7, 116–21, 202–3 n.15, 204 n.30; debts in Deformed Transformed, 119; debts in Don Juan, 43, 94, 107–13, 115–19; debts in oriental tales, 87–94; debts to travel writing, 50, 86, 90–91, 105, 107–13, 115–17, 123, 127–28; debts to William Wordsworth, 96, 100–101, 201–2 n.7; and empire, 112–16; investment in persona, 98–104, 111, 143, 201 n.2; and Lake School poets, 100–102; literary failure of, 98–104; literary property, attitude toward, 11, 87; originality, attitude toward, 112–16; peasant poets, attitude toward, 179–80; reputation as poet, 28, 54, 86–89, 176; resented by John Clare, 179–80; social class as factor, 121, 166; unconscious, attitude toward, 119–21

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 134

Campbell, Thomas, 127–28, 159–60, 196 n.25

Casti, Giambattista, 116–19

Chatteron, Thomas, 23, 72–73, 174–75

Christensen, Jerome, 47, 196 n.25

Clairmont, Claire, 136

Clare, John, x, 2, 8, 176–81, 184

class: related to charges of plagiarism, ix-x, 173–81; genteel or aristocratic contexts, 50, 66, 95–96, 121, 129, 144, 157; related to labor and social ascendancy, 146, 158–65, 173–81

classical literature, 10, 14, 28–29, 128–29, 138–39, 164, 202–3 n.15

Clery, E. J., 75

Cochran, Peter, 111

Coe, Charles, 109, 123

coincidence, philosophical use of term, 5, 24, 38–39. See also plagiarism, coincidence as factor in

Coleridge, E. H., 58

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: accused of plagiarism, xii, 2, 17–41, 191–92 n.12, 194 n.2; accuses or defends other writers, 39, 42–44; association and poetic theory, 37–38, 120; Biographia Literaria, observations in, 9, 29–30, 120; borrowing of meter, 29–30; Byron’s debt to, 44, 91–94, 96–97, 100–101; Christabel, 27–35, 64–65, 91–93, 115–16, 151–52, 195 n.15, 196 n.16, 198 n.6; comments on contemporary culture, 183; comments on William Wordsworth, 36, 41–42, 44, 142; criticism of, 46–47; dialogue with Mary Robinson, 50, 57–62, 198–99 n.10; debts in Biographia Literaria, 18, 22–24, 37–41, 45–48, 119, 184, 196 n.25; debts to Friederike Brun, 18–21, 45–46, 50, 55–57, 61–62; debts to Milton, 18–20; debts to Schelling, 18, 20–24, 38–40, 45; debts to travel writing, 18–22, 110, 123; debts to Dorothy Wordsworth, 62–70; debts to William Wordsworth, 61–62; defended by Sara Coleridge, 46; emphasis on plagiarisms as exceptional, x, 7–8, 17–18, 38, 45–47, 56, 86, 191–92 n.12; genial coincidence, 24, 26, 38–41, 133; habit, inhabitation, and addiction, 24–26, 31, 37, 39, 47; irony, 28–30; jouissance, 47–48; “Kubla Khan,” 36, 60, 123; literary property, attitude toward, 11, 43–44, 57, 61–62; novelty, attitude toward, 9, 29; ocular spectra, 26, 35–38; oral recitation, attitude toward, 29–31, 81; originality, attitude toward, 43–44; patchwork, use of term, 21, 43, 128, 185; periodicals, attitude toward, 57, 61–62; philosophical reading of, 24; plagiarisms unconscious, 18, 21–27, 36–37, 46–48; psychological motives for plagiarism assumed, 8, 17–18, 37–38; Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 60, 123; and Walter Scott, 28–29, 32, 39; sympathy, attitude toward, 3; textual parallels, attitude toward, 43–44, 130, 143, 186; tradition, attitude toward, 28–30; trances, 32–34, 36; unconscious, attitude toward, 23–27, 31–48; ventriloquism, 26–35, 40, 44–45, 59–61, 155; Dorothy Wordsworth’s view of, 31

Coleridge, Sara, 46

collaboration: between Coleridge and Wordsworth, 60, 147, 151–52, 155, 207 n.7; in poststructuralist theory, 6; versus proprietorial models of authorship, 28–29; in Romantic period, ix, xi, xiv, 185, 199 n.18

colonialism. See empire

Colwell, Frederic, 138

commonplace books, 49, 50, 55, 64–70

composition theory, xiii, 187

Conger, Sydney, 77–79

Continental literature: borrowings in general, 91, 105–6, 116–21, 202–3 n.15; from French, 21, 106; from German, 75, 77–79, 82–83, 86, 105, 116–17, 170, 200–201 n.39, 204 n.30; from Italian, 106, 116–19, 128–29, 203 n.16, 204 n.32; from Spanish, 134. See also individual authors

copyright law: Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Rights (1886), 5; complicated by anonymous publication, 110–11; complicated by gender, 52–53; complicated by popular genres, 49–50, 84; Copyright Act (1814), 86–87, 121, 144; in current law, 5–6; Donaldson v. Beckett (1774), 11–12, 87, 144; Literary Copyright Act (1842), 171; Millar v. Taylor (1769), 11; Napolitano v. Trustees of Princeton University (1982), 5; proprietary versus natural arguments in, 11–12, 28, 30–31, 87, 110, 144–46, 165, 169–70, 193 n.20; in Romantic period and eighteenth century, 10–14, 72–73, 123–24, 183, 190 n.5, 203 n.21; Society for the Encouragement of Learning Act (1736), 11; Statute of Anne (1709/10), 11; Tonson v. Collins (1760), 13; Webb v. Rose (1732), 11; William Wordsworth’s engagement with, 164–75

coterie circulation of texts, ix-x, 27, 30–32, 49, 64–70, 113–14

Cowley, Hannah, 21, 194–95 n.4, 197 n.1

Cowper, William, 177

Crabbe, George, 177

Culkin, Peter, 106, 203 n.16

Cunningham, Allan, 179

Cunningham, John, 177

Dalyell, J. G., 108, 112, 115, 117

Darbishire, Helen, 157

DeQuincey, Thomas: accusations against Coleridge, x, 17–24, 46, 50, 55–56, 106, 119; attitude toward unconscious plagiarism, 21–22, 46, 88–89; as correspondent, 148; plagiarisms of discussed, 191–92 n.12

DeSelincourt, Ernest, 157

Dodd, William, 73

Donkin, Ellen, 21, 194–95 n.4

drama, 21, 42, 202–3 n.15

Dyce, A., 88–89

Dyer, Gary, 15, 194 n.36

Ehrenprein, Irvin, 66

Eilenberg, Susan, 26, 33, 44, 165–66, 202 n.12, 207 n.12

empire, ix, 51, 79, 112–16, 126, 203–4 n.27

enchantment, 32–34, 36, 195 n.14

enclosure: legal decisions related to, 145, 165, 179; in the Romantic period, ix-x, 144–47, 155–58, 164–66, 172–73, 178–80, 208 n.20

Enfield, William, 13

Ferriar, John, 15

Ferrier, J. F., 46

Fielding, Henry, 14, 164

Fielding, Penny, 79, 81

Filicaia, Vincenzo da, 106

folklore, attitude toward appropriation of, 4, 49, 54, 70, 75–85, 197–98 n.5, 200–201 n.39

Ford, John, 134

forgery. See fraud

Foucault, Michel, 6

Fraistat, Neil, 71–72, 199–200 n.25

fraud, 72–73

Frere, John Hookham, 118

Freud, Sigmund, 4, 196–97 n.27

Fruman, Norman, 17, 37, 44, 47, 56, 61

Fulford, Timothy, 157, 198 n.8

Gait, John, 90

Gardner, John, 168

Garnett, Richard, 72, 74

gender: complicated by social class, 66, 124; Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act (1857), 53; effect on charges of plagiarism, ix-x, 19, 49–70, 124–25, 197 n.1, 202–3 n.15; legal limitations on women’s literary property, 51–54; and Mary Shelley’s attitude toward women’s writing, 128–31

genius, 97, 135, 155, 172–81, 184. See also style, “spirit”

Genlis, Stephanie, de, 77–79

Gennette, Gérard, 148, 207 n.9

genre: described as popular, 55, 62, 79, 84; designated as literary, 55, 62, 85; designated as subliterary, 54–57, 62, 64–85, 90, 121–31, 157–58; effect on charges of plagiarism, x, 19, 90, 49–85; high and low contrasted, 4, 49, 55, 90–93- See also individual genres

Gillies, R. P., 95, 207–8 n.10

Godwin, William, 58, 126, 201 n.41

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 116–17, 204 n.30

Goldsmith, Oliver, 177

Goodridge, John, 176

gothic, 50, 70–85, 90, 112, 122

Gray, Thomas, 95, 157–58, 174, 177, 208 n.13

Green, Stuart, 5–6

Groom, Nick, 112

Gross, Irena, 109

Grove, Harriet, 70

Grub Street, 62, 158, 170–71, 173

Guillory, John, 54–55, 157, 173–74

habit. See inhabitation

Halsband, Robert, 66

Hargrave, Francis, 14

historical imagination, x-xii

historicism, ix-xiii, 6–7, 187–88

history: considered subliterary genre, 4, 54, 70, 83–84, 90–91, 105, 108–13, 121, 123–24, 185; post-Romantic commentary on, 205 n.3; Romantic-period constructions of, 99, 102–4, 123–24, 126–27, 201 n.41

Hobhouse, John Cam, 103–4, 109

Hogg, James, 80–81, 149

Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 72

Howard, Rebecca Moore, xiii-xiv, 6

Hurd, Richard, 13

hybridity, as critical complaint, 3, 42, 113–16, 124, 127–28, 132, 202 n.12, 207–8 n.10

imitation: passive imitation in Christabel, 39–40, 43, 135; in Romantic period and eighteenth century, x, 9–10, 12–13, 16, 134–35, 153

imperialism. See empire

imposture. See fraud

improvement: and Byron’s debts, 96–98, 101, 106–7; and Clare’s debts, 176–78; complicated by satire, 147, 154, 163; in debts to Brun, 19–21, 50, 56–57; in debts to journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, 63–64; discussed in other assessments of Romantic-period plagiarism, 2–3, 19–24, 41–42, 163, 175, 182–83, 185; no longer recognized, 6; term used broadly in Romantic-period culture, ix, 145–47

inclosure. See enclosure

Ingleby, C. M., 46

inhabitation, 25–26, 39, 47–48. See also Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

inheritance: literary tradition as, 4, 84, 179; and plagiarism, ix, 66–68, 172; Romanticism as, ix, xi-xiii

Internet, and rise of plagiarism, xiii, 6

intertextuality, 6, 148, 186, 207 n.9

invention, 4–5, 13–14, 153

Ireland, William Henry, 72–73

Jaszi, Peter, 11

Johnson, Samuel, 73, 89, 193 n.25

Jones, Stephen, 15, 147

Jones, William, 137–38

journals, private, attitude toward appropriation of, 49–50, 54, 62–70

Keats, John, 142, 184

Keegan, Bridget, 173

Kewes, Paulina, 7

Kooy, Michael John, 38

Lacan, Jacques, 47–48, 196–97 n.27

Landor, Walter Savage, 8, 155–65

landscape, relation to aesthetics, 19–20, 145–47, 161, 175–78

Lauder, William, 12, 193 n.25

Lee, Debbie, 112

legend. See folklore

Levin, Susan, 68–69

Lewis, Matthew: accused of plagiarism, 8, 21, 43, 50, 105; debts in Castle Spectre, 21, 43; debts in The Monk, 23, 76–80, 83–85, 91, 178; Shelley’s debt to, 70–76, 199–200 n.25

literature: development of as category, xi, 55, 197–98 n.5; legal protections particularly enjoyed by, 4, 49, 64, 70; particular genres associated with, 49, 64–70, 82–85, 95–96, 131; plagiarism as violation of cultural norms defining, 2, 98–99, 103

Locke, John, 11, 87, 110, 144, 165, 201 n.1, 206 n.1

Lockhardt, John, 80–81

Lockwood, Thomas, 14, 192–94 n.30

Lonsdale, James Lowther, earl of, 166–67

Lonsdale, William Lowther, earl of, 166–67

Lowes, John Livingston, 35, 37, 46, 110, 123

Lynch, Jack, 73

lyric, 104, 120, 185–86

machinery, 14, 21, 43

Mackintosh, James, 43

Macmillan, Fiona, xiii

Macpherson, James, 150–51

magnetism, 31, 195 n.14

Majeed, Javeed, 126

Mallon, Thomas, 15, 47

Malthus, Thomas, 114

Manning, Peter, 62

Martin, Philip, 99

mastery, narrative or lyric: complicated by vernacular, 79–81; related to gender, 53–54, 129–30, 197 n.1; related to improvement, 2, 64, 80; related to metaphors of slavery, 112–15; in Romantic-period writing, ix, xi, 4, 6, 30, 120, 125, 132, 149, 182, 184–85, 207–8 n.10; as sign of aesthetic success, 22, 41–42, 80, 82, 122

McCracken, David, 150

McFarland, Thomas, 1, 47

McGann, Jerome, xi, 187, 194 n.30

Medwin, Thomas, 65, 74–75, 111, 114, 116–19

Meltzer, Françoise, 9, 192 n.14

mesmerism. See magnetism

meter, as element of verse, 29–30, 99, 149, 190 n.5

methodology, in this study, x, xii

Middleton, Thomas, 117

Mill, James, 126

Miller, Eric, 179

Milton, John, 4, 12, 18–19, 22, 55, 150–51, 156–58, 178, 193 n.25

miscegenation, ix, 112–14

Mitchell, J. Forbes, 167

monstrosity, as critical complaint. See hybridity

Montagu, Mary Wortley, 129–31

Moore, Thomas, 91–92, 94, 105, 123, 127–28, 159–60, 204–5 n.1

Moorman, Mary, 65

More, Hannah, 8, 21, 145, 174–76, 194–95 n.4, 197 n.1

Morgan, Sydney, 137–38, 140

multiple-use property, 19–20, 84. See also enclosure

Murphy, Peter, 80–81, 149

Murray, John, 73, 108–11, 115, 201 n.7

Musäus, Johann Karl August, 77–79

nationalism, related to literature, 79, 84, 102, 113–15, 177–78

neoclassical aesthetics, 20, 129, 147. See also Augustan literature

new, in Romantic aesthetics. See novelty

New Historicism, xi

Newlyn, Lucy, 28–29

newspapers, attitude toward appropriation from, 54, 57–62

North, Christopher, 162–63

Norton, Caroline, 52–53

novelty, 9, 29–30, 153

oral circulation of texts: related to Christabel, 29–31, 91–92, 147; related to Gothic, 50, 75–85; related to other examples of plagiarism, x, 151–52, 155–58, 173–74. See also vernacular

oriental tales, 84–93

originality: and ideas of autogenous invention, ix, xiii, 5, 14, 22, 30, 90, 132, 182; modern characterization of, xiii, 5, 9–10; neoclassical attitudes toward, 10, 12–14, 117, 183, 192 n.17, 192–93 n.18; Romanticism associated with, ix, xi, xiii-xiv, 182; Romantic-period attitudes toward, xiv, 9–10, 16, 29–30, 86–90, 93, 117, 120, 152–53, 170, 178–79, 182–88

Parnell, Thomas, 88

parody, 15, 89, 104, 148, 190 n.5. See also satire

patchwork, used as critical complaint, 3, 21, 43, 128, 185

Peacock, Thomas Love, 125–31, 136, 145

Peck, Louis, 76–77

Peel, Robert, 169–71

Percy, Thomas, 82

Perkins, David, 185–86

Pfau, Thomas, 146

plagiarism: acknowledgment as factor in, 2–3, 107; aesthetic or poetical, x, 2–3, 20, 32, 41, 43, 65, 82, 88, 96–98, 127, 147, 163; aesthetic stakes in, xiv, 1–2, 4–5, 8, 46, 54–55, 73, 83, 87, 90–93, 97–98, 107, 116, 120, 130–32, 143; avowal, criteria for implicit, 2–3, 97, 106; coincidence as factor in, 24, 26, 38–41, 90, 92–93, 109, 133, 162, 174, 178, 190 n.2; as competition, 9, 28, 57, 185, 207 n.7; consciousness as factor in, 2–3, 17–24, 32, 34, 46, 63, 78–77, 83, 88–89, 93, 97, W, 119, 133–34, 173–74, 190 n.2, 195 n.4; critical emphasis on, ix, xiii-xiv, 2, 6–8, 18, 20, 22, 42, 45–46, 190 n.6, 191–92 n.12; critical reluctance to historicize, xii-xiv, 1, 6–7, 45, 106–7, 192 n.14; criticism, as mode of, 9, 18, 28, 42, 45, 86, 112, 154–55; culpable, 2, 4, 7, 20, 32, 41, 45, 72, 83, 89, 97, 125, 148; described in Romantic period, 1–5, 8–9, 17, 19–24, 53–56, 63–64, 76, 88, 96–98, 182–85; etymology of, 110, 112, 203 n.24; familiarity of texts as factor in, 2–3, 19–24, 72, 122, 125, 158; improvement as factor in, 2–6, 19–23, 43–44, 56, 64–65, 83, 97–98, 107, 119, 130, 145, 152, 178, 190 n.2, 195 n.4; legal aspects of, 5–6, 10–14, 46, 49–50, 73; legal rhetoric associated with in Romantic period, 10–14, 16, 89–90, 94, 97, 110; literary failure, as implication of, 16, 20, 18, 44, 88, 97–104, 147; morality as factor in, xiv, 5–6, 8, 18, 20, 42, 45–46, 88, 190 n.6; neoclassical attitude toward, 7, 12–13; as passive imitation, 32, 34; persona as factor in, 97–104, 111, 129–32; and postmodernism, xiii, 5–7, 47; post-Romantic attitudes toward, 53, 162, 183, 190 n.2; psychological motives of assumed, x, 8, 46–48; real estate, compared to, 11, 144–47, 155; social class as factor in, 50, 66, 70, 144; textual unity as factor in, 3–4, 47, 129. See also copyright; gender; style, textual parallels

plot. See machinery

poetry, as privileged genre, xii, 9, 126, 131–35

Polwhele, Richard, 89

Pope, Alexander, 14, 88, 150, 177

Porter, James, xiii

Priestley, Joseph, 35

pseudonymous publication, 59

Pulci, Luigi, 118

Quillinan, Edward, 162–63

Raban, Joseph, 139

Radcliffe, Ann, 22, 88

Randall, Marilyn, 9, 192 n.14

Rastic, Ratomir, 142

reader, knowledge of assumed, 3–4, 12, 19–20, 24, 72, 124–25, 127, 137, 205 n.5

realism. See verisimilitude

Reid, David, 157

Reiman, Donald, 72, 196 n.25, 199–200 n.25

Repton, Humphrey, 145

reviews, periodical: attitude toward borrowings from, 54, 56–57, 61; Blackwood’s Edinburgh Review, 105, 154, 161–62, 194 n.2; British Critic, 71, 185; and Byron, 8, 73, 86–90, 94, 96–98, 107–12, 120–21; and Clare, 8, 176–79; and Coleridge, 8, 28–29, 45; Eclectic Review, 177; Gentleman’s Magazine, 87–90, 94, 96, 108; and Lewis, 8, 77–79, 81, 84; London Magazine, 94–96; Monthly Magazine, 108, 110–11; Morning Chronicle, 70; Morning Post, 55–62, 177, 198–99 n.10; New Anti-Jacobin, 117; New Monthly Magazine, 119; Noctes Ambrosianae, 80; Poetical Repository, 71–72; Quarterly Review, 107; role in allegations of plagiarism, ix, xii, 2, 8–9, 122, 158, 161–65, 180; Spectator, 13; and Laurence Sterne, 15; Tait’s Magazine, 18–24, 55, 96, 119

Richardson, Alan, 35

Richardson, Samuel, 14

Ricks, Christopher, 6–7

Rifacimento, 118–19

Robinson, Henry Crabb, 94, 114, 154

Robinson, Mary, 50, 57–62, 198 n.8, 198–99 n.10

Romanticism: aesthetic objectives of, 1, 12; associated with originality, ix, xi, xii-xiv, 5, 16, 186–87; as discipline, xi-xiii, 7–8, 12, 16, 30, 86, 185–88; and ideology, xi-xiii; as new aesthetics, 9, 16, 29–30, 125–26, 128–32, 153, 182; Peacock’s critique of, 125–132. See also inheritance

Rose, Mark, 11

Russett, Margaret, 29–30, 44, 176, 180

Saint-Amour, Paul, 182, 186

satire: denigration of genre, 3, 14–16; related to charges of plagiarism, x, 12, 102–3, 116–21, 145–50, 154, 158–65, 184, 193–94 n.30, 196 n.25

Schelling, Friedrich von, 18, 22–24, 38–40, 44–45, 196–97 n.27, 198 n.6

Schlegel, August Wilhelm von, 38, 105, 202–3 n.15

Schmidgen, Wolfram, 164

Schoenfield, Mark, 166

Scott, Walter: as critic, 15; debts to Christabel, 28–29, 32, 91–92; influence on Byron, 201 n.7; plagiarisms discussed by contemporaries, 39, 207–8 n.10; reputation as poet, 28, 166–68, 176–77; and social class, 166–68, 171

sensibility, 55, 129, 131, 137

servile, imitation described as, 28, 40, 112, 185, 203 n.24

Seward, Anna, 23, 55

Shakespeare, William, 5, 15, 19, 21–22, 55, 94, 117, 134, 150–51, 158, 194 n.3

Shelley, Elizabeth, 50, 70–76, 84, 199–200 n.25

Shelley, Mary: defends modern verse, 122; “Giovanni Villani,” 125, 128–32, 184, 206 n.10; and Italian Lives, 118, 204 n.30; legal ownership of her writing, 52; Lodore, 123, 204–5 n.1; travel writing, 123, 125, 128–32

Shelley, Percy Bysshe: Alastor, x, 135–43; and Calderón, 134; Cenci, 131; coincidence, attitude toward, 133; debts to Gothic, 50, 70–76, 84, 199–200 n.25; “Defense of Poetry,” x, 10, 125, 128, 131–32, 136, 206 n.10; as husband, 52; plagiarism, discusses in prefaces, 132–35; Prometheus Unbound, 3, 134–35; Revolt of Islam, 131, 133; and social class, 171; Tennyson’s debts to, 3; and travel writing, 122–24, 135–43; unconscious, 133–34; Victor and Cazire, 70–76, 122, 134, 199–200 n.25; Wordsworth critiqued by, 135, 141–43

Sheridan, Caroline, 52

Sheridan, Richard Brindsley, 52

Sherman, Brad, 11

Shevlocke, George, 18, 20–21

slavery. See servile

Smollett, Tobias, 14

Southey, Robert: Byron’s debts to, 116; debts to travel writing, 123, 127–28, 204–5 n.1; defended by Landor, 158–63; as Lake School poet, 9; Percy Bysshe Shelley’s debts to, 137–38, 140; and Wat Tyler, 110, 203 n.21

Staël, Germaine de, 106

Steele, Richard, 12, 82, 88

Sterne, Laurence, 15

Stockdale, Joseph, 70–73

Stuart, Daniel, 61

style: authorial identity and persona as central factors in, 14, 83, 149, 183–86; Byron, 87–88, 92–98, 101–4, 110–11, 120–21; Clare, 180; Coleridge’s attitude toward, 27–35, 40–45; defined in pre-Romantic period, 10, 13–14; defined in Romantic period, 13–16, 129–32, 182–88, 190 n.5, 195 n.11; gender, complicated by, 53–54, 56, 64–67, 69, 129–32; legal protections granted to, 4–6, 8, 13–14, 93; plagiarism, as central element in assessment of, 2, 8, 83, 95, 110, 183–88; Mary Shelley, 129–32; Percy Bysshe Shelley, 134–35; “spirit,” 14, 29, 44, 80, 135, 195 n.11; sympathy, 31, 34, 58, 136–37, 139–43, 186; textual unity, productive of, 3–4, 44; Trel-awny, 115–16; ventriloquism, 33, 40–42; vernacular, complicated by, 79–83, 176–77

Talfourd, William Noon, 169–71

Taylor, Henry, x, 23, 94–99, 102, 106–7, 110, 152, 170, 184–85

Tennyson, Alfred, 1st baron, 3, 190 n.2

Terry, Richard, 12, 183, 192–93 n.18

textual parallels: Coleridge and critical emphasis on, 8, 18–23, 45–47, 56; in neoclassical aesthetics, 12–13, 20, 183, 192–93 n.18; particular and universal contrasted, 13–15, 178–79; Romantic-period attitude toward, xiv, 2, 4, 6, 13–16, 20–22, 63–64, 83, 94–95, 116, 132, 149, 183; treated in contemporary culture, 5–6, 72

Thelwall, John, 27

Thomson, James, 156–58, 176, 178

Thorton, Kelsey, 176

tone. See style

Townshend, C. H., 178

trance. See enchantment

translation, 21, 29, 32, 116, 170, 198 n.6

travel writing: attitude toward appropriation from, 4, 50–51, 54, 65, 84–86, 90, 99, 107–15, 122–32, 205 n.3; and empire, 112–15; gender as factor in, 128–31, 205 n.4; Romantic poetry, central to, 122–32

Trelawny, Edward, 65, 113–16

Trott, Nicola, 73

Trumpener, Katie, 79

Tully, Richard, 50, 109, 111–12, 123

unconscious: Coleridge’s conception of, 23–27, 31–48; disagreement between Coleridge and DeQuincey regarding, 23–27; post-Freudian models contrasted with Romantic, 4, 18, 196–97 n.27; use of term in Romantic period, x, 4–5, 17–19

Vassallo, Peter, 118, 203 n.16

verisimilitude, as textual effect, 131, 185–87

vernacular, problems of ownership, 79–85, 147–49, 155–56, 173–74

voice. See style

volition, 26, 31–35, 195–96 n.16, 196 n.25

Volney, Constantin, comte de, 137–38

Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet, 88, 111

Walpole, Horace, 74

Warburton, William, 13

Wedgwood, Josiah, 59

Wellek, René, 46

Williams, Edward Ellerker, 65, 114

Williams, Matthew, 146

Wilson, John, 153–55

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 129–30

Woodmansee, Martha, 11

Wordsworth, Dorothy: attitude toward female authorship, 66–69; on Coleridge and family’s relationship with, 31; on copyright, 168; debts to her journals, 50, 62–70; legal status as author, 62, 199 n.13; on plagiarism, 32, 151–53, 166, 207–8 n.10; on Mary Robinson, 60; and social class, 171; “Thoughts on my Sick-bed,” 67–69

Wordsworth, William: accused of plagiarism, xii, 2, 8; accuses Bayley of plagiarism, 15–16, 103, 119, 147–49, 152, 207–8 n.10; on ballad tradition, 82–83; borrows from journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, 62–70; Christabel and concern over reception of, 151–52; Coleridge’s debts to poetry of, 61–62; collaboration with Coleridge, 60, 147, 151–52, 155, 207 n.7; conflict with Byron, x, 41, 44, 73, 86–87, 94–98, 100–101, 106–7, 119, 144, 147, 164, 167, 171; copyright reform, 165–73; debts to travel writing, 109–10, 123, 191–92 n.12; and egotistical sublime, 184; “Essay Supplementary to the Preface,” 9, 61, 82, 86, 144–47, 149, 153, 162–63, Vi≫ Excursion, x, 141–43, 149, 153–65; Gray, plagiarisms of, 95, 157–58, 208 n.13; Hogg, parodied by, 149; labor and real estate, investment in metaphors of, x, 11, 82, 87, 94–96, 120, 144–47, 155–58, 164–76, 179–81, 201 n.1; and landscape aesthetics, 145–46, 155–57, 161; literary tradition, attitude toward, 55, 157; locodescriptive poetry, relationship to, 156–58; and lyric, 185–86; Lyrical Ballads, concern over, 15, 142, 144, 146–53, 155, 157; plagiarism of friends discussed, 21–22, 151–52, 207–8 n.10; “Preface to The Lyrical Ballads,” 81–82; reputation as poet, 41–42, 54, 150–52, 155, 158, 160, 176; satire, attitude toward, 15–16, 147–49, 154; Shelley’s critique of, 141–43; and social class, x, 144–46, 155–56, 159, 165–67, 169–71, 180–81; stylistic debts, concern with, x, 94–95, 130, 143; “With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and wide,” 185–86; Dorothy Wordsworth’s comments on, 31

Yearsley, Ann, x, 8, 174–76

Young, Edward, 10, 13, 153, 179, 192–93 n.18, 208 n.20