Original Copy: Plagiarism and Originality in Nineteenth-Century Literature

by RobertMacFarlane (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2007

  $105.50

  A wide-ranging and elegantly written study of how nineteenth-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 including Eliot, Dickens, Pater, and Wilde.