This is a wide-ranging and elegantly written study of how 19th century culture thought about, and thought with, the idea of originality. It reveals how plagiarism was not only a theoretical concern of Victorian commentators on literature, but also...
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This is a wide-ranging and elegantly written study of how 19th century culture thought about, and thought with, the idea of originality. It reveals how plagiarism was not only a theoretical concern of Victorian commentators on literature, but also provided a creative resource for many important writers
Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-235) and index
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'Romantic' OriginalityLegitimizing Appropriation -- George Eliot, Originality, and Plagiarism -- Charles Reade: The Realist as Plagiarist -- Aesthetics of Salvage in the Fin-de-Siècle: Originality and Plagiarism in Pater, Wilde, and Johnson.