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- Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Chapter One The Pickwick Phenomenon
- Chapter Two Charles Dickens and the Pseudo-Dickens Industry
- Chapter Three Parody; or, The Art of Writing Edward Bulwer Lytton
- Chapter Four Thackeray versus Bulwer versus Bulwer: Parody and Appropriation
- Chapter Five Being George Eliot: Imitation, Imposture, and Identity
- Postscript, Posthumous Papers, Aftertexts
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Postscript, Posthumous Papers, Aftertexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2019
- Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Chapter One The Pickwick Phenomenon
- Chapter Two Charles Dickens and the Pseudo-Dickens Industry
- Chapter Three Parody; or, The Art of Writing Edward Bulwer Lytton
- Chapter Four Thackeray versus Bulwer versus Bulwer: Parody and Appropriation
- Chapter Five Being George Eliot: Imitation, Imposture, and Identity
- Postscript, Posthumous Papers, Aftertexts
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Summary
The foregoing chapters have traveled the byways of literature – the neglected, the obscure, the unoriginal, and the insipid. I have recovered a number of texts that imitate the creative output of three nineteenth-century novelists. These aftertexts (as I designate them) have various aims and purposes: they denigrate the successful, capitalize on their triumphs, or associate, even obliquely, with the reigning authors of the day. Because of his immense popularity, Charles Dickens was a natural resource for aftertextual authors. The most persistent Dickensian copyist of the mid-nineteenth century was Thomas Peckett Prest, but other anonymous and pseudonymous texts stalked the early career of Dickens the novelist.
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- Plagiarizing the Victorian NovelImitation, Parody, Aftertext, pp. 179 - 185Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019