Plagiarizing the Victorian novel : imitation, parody, aftertext / Adam Abraham.
| Author/creator | Abraham, Adam, 1970- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource (ix, 282 pages) : illustrations. |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 118 Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 118. ^A344711 |
| 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. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 26, 2019). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Abraham, Adam. Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel : Imitation, Parody, Aftertext. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2019 9781108493079 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9781108675406 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 1108675409 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 1108656196 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 9781108656191 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
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