Original Copy: Plagiarism and Originality in Nineteenth-Century Literature

by Robert Macfarlane

'"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199296502
• ISBN13: 9780199296507
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.5"