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Sample Table of Contents

Below is the Table of Contents for Volume 34, Number 1 (Spring 2001), Questions of Literary Property in Eighteenth-Century England.

Editor's Comment
John Dussinger

I. Authorship and Appropriation

Imitation and Plagiarism: The Lauder Affair and Its Critical Aftermath
Bertrand A. Goldgar

“[A] Play, which I presume to call original”: Appropriation, Creative Genius, and Eighteenth-Century Playwriting
Paulina Kewes

II. Censorship

Revisiting A Masterpiece: Government and the Press, 1695–1763
Simon Varey

Rex v. Curll: Pornography and Punishment in Court and on the Page
Alexander Pettit

Political Propriety and Feminine Property: Women in the Eighteenth-Century Text Trades
Lisa Maruca

The New Foundling Hospital for Wit: From Hanbury Williams to John Wilkes
Donald W. Nichol

III. Publishing

Subscription-Hunters and Their Prey
Thomas Lockwood

“A just balance between patronage and the press”: The Case of James Thomson
James Sambrook