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Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel - Imitation, Parody, Aftertext (Hardcover)
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Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel - Imitation, Parody, Aftertext (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
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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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