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Original Copy
Robert Macfarlane
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Description for Original Copy
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. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 462.
'"Originality" is only plagiarizing from a great many', remarked Rupert Brooke, stealing the line from Voltaire. Questions of originality, and accusations of plagiarism, are as old as literature, but different literary cultures have interpreted the relationship between originality and plagiarism in startlingly dissimilar ways. Original Copy investigates and documents the drastic reappraisal of literary originality and plagiarism which occurred over the course of the nineteenth century: from the heroic visions of original authorship that characterised the 1820s and 1830s, through to the stickle-brick creativity of Oscar Wilde and Lionel Johnson at the century's end. It reveals how ideas of ... Read more
'"Originality" is only plagiarizing from a great many', remarked Rupert Brooke, stealing the line from Voltaire. Questions of originality, and accusations of plagiarism, are as old as literature, but different literary cultures have interpreted the relationship between originality and plagiarism in startlingly dissimilar ways. Original Copy investigates and documents the drastic reappraisal of literary originality and plagiarism which occurred over the course of the nineteenth century: from the heroic visions of original authorship that characterised the 1820s and 1830s, through to the stickle-brick creativity of Oscar Wilde and Lionel Johnson at the century's end. It reveals how ideas of ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
Number of Pages
258
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199296507
SKU
V9780199296507
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About Robert Macfarlane
Dr Robert Macfarlane is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His first book, Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (2003), won both the Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian First Book Award.
Reviews for Original Copy
provocative and fruitful, offering new insights
Meg Jensen MLR
[a] fast-moving, broad-sweeping book
Matthew Reynolds, Times Literary Supplement
[Macfarlane proposes] fresh insights...Crisp, elegant, and impeccably researched, Original Copy promises to challenge reader's assumptions about the true nature of creativity, even those who think they've read it all before.
Kelly Grovier, The Observer
an excellent ... Read more
Meg Jensen MLR
[a] fast-moving, broad-sweeping book
Matthew Reynolds, Times Literary Supplement
[Macfarlane proposes] fresh insights...Crisp, elegant, and impeccably researched, Original Copy promises to challenge reader's assumptions about the true nature of creativity, even those who think they've read it all before.
Kelly Grovier, The Observer
an excellent ... Read more