The Plagiarism Allegation in English Literature from Butler to Sterne

1. Introduction
Richard Terry

2. ‘Plagiarism’: The Emergence of a Literary Concept
Richard Terry

3. Plagiarism, Authorial Fame and Proprietary Authorship
Richard Terry

4. Plagiarism and the Burden of Tradition in Dryden and Others
Richard Terry

5. Plagiarism and Sufficiency in the English ‘Battle of the Books’
Richard Terry

6. Pope and Plagiarism
Richard Terry

7. Johnson and the Lauder Affair
Richard Terry

8. The Plagiarism Allegation and the Female Author
Richard Terry

9. Plagiarism, Imitation and Originality
Richard Terry

10. Sterne: The Plagiarist as Genius
Richard Terry

11. Epilogue
Richard Terry

Keywords: Literature, Fiction, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Eighteenth-Century Literature