Plagiarizing the Victorian novel : imitation, parody, aftertext / Adam Abraham.
Abraham, Adam, 1970-| Call Number | 823.809 |
| Author | Abraham, Adam, 1970- author. |
| Title | Plagiarizing the Victorian novel : imitation, parody, aftertext / Adam Abraham. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (ix, 282 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Series | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 118 |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Aug 2019). |
| Contents | The Pickwick phenomenon -- Charles Dickens and the pseudo-Dickens industry -- Parody, or, the art of writing Edward Bulwer Lytton -- Thackeray versus Bulwer versus Bulwer: parody and appropriation -- Being George Eliot: imitation, imposture, and identity -- Postscript, posthumous papers, aftertexts. |
| 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. |
| Subject | English fiction 19th century History and criticism. Plagiarism Great Britain History 19th century. Parody. |
| Multimedia |
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| 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. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Aug 2019). |
| Contents | The Pickwick phenomenon -- Charles Dickens and the pseudo-Dickens industry -- Parody, or, the art of writing Edward Bulwer Lytton -- Thackeray versus Bulwer versus Bulwer: parody and appropriation -- Being George Eliot: imitation, imposture, and identity -- Postscript, posthumous papers, aftertexts. |
| Subject | English fiction 19th century History and criticism. Plagiarism Great Britain History 19th century. Parody. |
| Multimedia |