Plagiarism in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9781349667260 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 276 str.

P. Kewes

Opis

What Is plagiarism? How was it understood and judged in early modern England? This interdisciplinary study sets out at once to theorize and historicise plagiarism. The first part launches a vigorous debate about the ethical, philosophical, artistic, and legal implications of plagiarism. Individual essays in part two provide historical case studies. Variously centred on translations of the Bible, historiography, drama, poetry, dance treatises, sermons, and colonial grammars, the essays show how a nexus of concepts developed between the Renaissance and the early nineteenth century - plagiarism, imitation, forgery, copyright, and intellectual property - and how they have been defined and contested.

Recenzje

''Plagiarism' has always been a dirty word. Yet what one generation regards as literary theft may, to another, seem legitimate borrowing or adaptation. By modern criteria, Shakespeare was a plagiarist, as was Handel, but their contemporaries did not see it that way. Neither historical relativism nor ex cathedra condemnation is a fitting stance from which to view past practices. This innovative collection of essays reconstructs shifting attitudes to plagiarism in early modern England, and places them within their historical contexts. One of the book's many strengths is the range of perspectives it offers on plagiarism...This landmark volume brings new depth and focus to the study of plagiarism and will remain a fundamental text on the subject for many years to come.' - Robert D. Hume, Evan Pugh Professor of English Literature, Penn State University

'Plagiarism, as these fascinating and thought-provoking essays remind us, is ever more with us as the internet enfolds us all. Its significance may have

changed in different eras, discourses and technologies, but its capacity to

generate controversy never goes away. The strength of Paulina Kewes's admirably focused volume lies in historicising and particularising the issues. By

concentrating on the early modern (1500-1800), and examining instances from

biblical translation, historiography, choreography, sermons and grammar-books, as well as 'literature', the book remains coherent (there is fluid interplay between the essays) and yet does justice to the complexity of this contentious and many-sided subject.' - Professor Richard Dutton, Lancaster University

'Plagiarism as original sin and perennial problem compels our fresh

attention. This book charts a brilliant and original course through classic

and contested arguments. Structured as a conversation between distinguished

and patient protagonists, it is a feast of reason, a true symposium.' - Professor Warwick Gould, Director, Institute of English Studies

'Paulina Kewes, the editor, has selected the contributions with an eye to thematic consistency and, though it may be strange praise for a volume on plagiarism, a commendable concern for originality...Clearly...the spirit of innovation has not yet flown the groves of academe.' - Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

Preface Notes on Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction: Historicising Plagiarism; P.Kewes PART ONE: APPROACHES TO PLAGIARISM Plagiarism; C.Ricks Plagiarism: Hammond versus Ricks; B.S.Hammond Plagiarism and Original Sin; S.Orgel Forgery, Plagiarism, Imitation, Pegleggery; N.Groom PART TWO: CONTEXTS OF PLAGIARISM Plagiarising the Word of God: Tyndale Between More and Joye; A.Hope Plagiarism and Imitation in Renaissance Historiography; L.Richardson 'The Fripperie of Wit': Jonson and Plagiarism; I.Donaldson The Medium of Plagiarism: Rogue Choreographers in Early Modern London; B.Ravelhofer Originality and the Puritan Sermon; H.Love Theft and Poetry and Pope; P.Baines 'In Pleasing Memory of All He Stole': Plagiarism and Literary Detraction 1747-1785; R.Terry Lone Travellers: The Construction of Originality and Plagiarism in Colonial Grammars of Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; R.Steadman-Jones Afterword; B.A.Golgar Index

O autorze

PAUL BAINES Senior Lecturer, Department of English, University of Liverpool IAN DONALDSON Grace I Professor of English, Cambridge University BERTRAND A.GOLDGAR Professor of English, Lawrence University NICK GROOM Senior Lecturer, English Literature, University of Bristol BREAN S.HAMMOND Professor of English, University of Nottingham ANDREW HOPE teaches History in Kent HAROLD LOVE holds a personal chair in English, Monash University, Melbourne STEPHEN ORGEL Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor in Humanities, Stanford University BARBARA RAVELHOFER Research Professor, Istituto di Studi Avanzati, University of Bologna LISA RICHARDSON working on the use and imitation of classical and other literary models in early modern English historiography CHRISTOPHER RICKS Warren Professor of the Humanities, Boston University and co-director of the Editorial Institute RICHARD STEADMAN-JONES Lecturer, School of English, Sheffield University RICHARD TERRY Reader, Eighteenth-Century English Literature, University of Sunderland.