Plagiarizing the Victorian novel : imitation, parody, aftertext /

Plagiarizing the Victorian novel : imitation, parody, aftertext /

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Author / Creator:	Abraham, Adam, 1970- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	ix, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 118 Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 118.
Subject:	English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Plagiarism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Parody. English fiction. Parody. Plagiarism. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11959147

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ISBN:	9781108493079 1108493076 9781108656191
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	How can we tell plagiarism from an allusion? How does imitation differ from parody? Where is the line between copyright infringement and homage? Questions of intellectual property have been vexed long before our own age of online piracy. In Victorian Britain, enterprising authors tested the limits of literary ownership by generating plagiaristic publications based on leading writers of the day. Adam Abraham illuminates these issues by examining imitations of three novelists: Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and George Eliot. Readers of Oliver Twist may be surprised to learn about Oliver Twiss, a penny serial that usurped Dickens's characters. Such imitative publications capture the essence of their sources; the caricature, although crude, is necessarily clear. By reading works that emulate three nineteenth-century writers, this innovative study enlarges our sense of what literary knowledge looks like: to know a particular author means to know the sometimes bad imitations that the author inspired.

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