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Plagiarism and the Burden of Tradition in Dryden and Others
Dryden’s dedicatory epistle ‘To my Dear Friend Mr. Congreve’ appeared in 1694, prefixed to the first quarto edition of The Double-Dealer. It was composed six years before Dryden’s death, an event itself anticipat...
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Introduction: ‘I told you we’d been invaded by Victoriana’
In 1918 Ezra Pound coined the term ‘Victoriana’ as a way of pejoratively characterising the Victorian past: ‘For most of us, the odour of defunct Victoriana is so unpleasant … that we are content to leave the ...
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Epilogue
In the preface to Royall Tyler’s The Algerine Captive (1797), Tyler describes with pride the spread of literacy and access to print available in the early American republic: “The diffusion of a taste, for any spe...
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Conclusion
The full story of what Paul Giles has termed “transnational fictions and the transatlantic imaginary” stretches far beyond the limits of this study (Giles Virtual Americas). In incisive and capacious work, schola...
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Introduction
‘Plagiarism’ is one of those words that simultaneously identifies a concept and conveys an attitude towards it: in this case, a strongly disapprobative one. Swift referred to it as a ‘hard’ word, meaning harsh...
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Revitalizing the Moral Economy in the Wake of the South Sea Bubble: Moll Flanders (1722) and Roxana (1724)
The novels of Daniel Defoe at first glance appear ill-qualified for a study of customary culture in eighteenth-century fiction. Heralding the cultural debut of the “middling sort,” Defoe’s entrepreneurial prota.....
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Plagiarism, Authorial Fame and Proprietary Authorship
A recognized landmark in the emergence of modern conceptions of authorship is the appearance in 1616 of the monumental folio edition of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson. Merely by publishing his plays, Jonson was se...
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Introduction
Americans are often unaware of the accommodations forced upon people the world over by their nation’s emergence as an economic, military, and cultural “superpower” in the twentieth century. For the superpower o.....
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“The Real Soul of a Man in Her Breast”: Memoirs of Female Soldiers and Military Nationalism, 1740–1750
The 1740’s witnessed another prominent and politically charged migration of popular ballad to prose narrative, this time featuring the story of a well-known and celebrated heroine, the female warrior, a laborin.....
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Historical Novels, 1762–1783
In 1984, Alan Williams called for a ‘radical genre criticism,’ one that would ‘(1) start with a genre’s “pre-history,” its roots in other media; (2) study all films, regardless of perceived quality; and (3) go...
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Plagiarism and Sufficiency in the English ‘Battle of the Books’
It was his former secretary and literary executor, Jonathan Swift, who said of Sir William Temple’s prose style that it ‘has advanced our English Tongue, to as great a Perfection as it can well bear’.1 The compli...
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Commerce, Reunion, and the Anglo-American Public Sphere
Imagine, for a moment, the sensation caused by the opening of the first Kinetoscope parlor in London in 1894. As the viewer presses his or her eyes to the viewing pane, a reel of individual frames, frozen spots.....
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Introduction: Public Property
By now, the image has been firmly lodged in the cultural lexicon of international politics and in the minds of countless individuals here in the United States and abroad. The illustration is startling: Michelle.....
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Caleb Williams (1794): Radical Incursions into Customary Politics and Genre
Caleb Williams evidences Godwin’s struggle to comprehend how people advocating for basic civil rights of assembly and representation could be convicted as traitors to the nation. The political and historical cont...
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‘If Rigor Is Our Dream’
It is interesting to consider—and, I think, worth sharing—the uncertainty that attended my decision to alter these oft-quoted lines. My first concern was with rhythm; I worried that the absent lines would prese.....
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Historical Novels, 1784–1813
In the last chapter, I looked at the increase in novelistic production of the last decades of the eighteenth century and the importance of novelistic subgenres to this increase, particularly as regards the cir...
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Johnson and the Lauder Affair
In spite of being the author of two distinguished Juvenalian Imitation poems, Johnson seems to have taken a dim view of imitation in its general sense of literary borrowing. While conceding that overlap betwee...
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Modernity, Fabulation, and America in Dracula
In Anglo-Saxons, Onwards! the narrator repeatedly reminds readers that “no foot Ever touch ed this land!” Asense of the inviolability of national space inverts the imperial trajectory of Anglo-Saxonism, recoding ...
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Disembodiments
Figurations of the Middle Passage have presented the body as an archive of a history that attempts to deal with the want of a continuum of cultural memory. Artists’ reliance on a history that has to be construc.....
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Memory Texts: History, Fiction and the Historical Imaginary
It is, perhaps, no coincidence that neo-Victorian fiction achieves momentum at around the time when personal memory of the Victorians was slip** away. By the 1980s there could be few, if any, Victorians left...
