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Abbreviations | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Two theories of originality | p. 1 |
Victorian originalities | p. 6 |
'Romantic' Originality | p. 18 |
Introduction | p. 18 |
The new shibboleth | p. 27 |
The Romantic handover | p. 33 |
Purloined letters and plagiarism hunters | p. 41 |
Legitimizing Appropriation | p. 50 |
Introduction | p. 50 |
Composition and decomposition | p. 52 |
Victorian selves and plagiarism | p. 67 |
'They wot not of it': unconscious plagiarism | p. 77 |
Noble contagion | p. 82 |
Conclusions | p. 88 |
George Eliot, Originality, and Plagiarism | p. 92 |
Introduction | p. 92 |
Eliot and 'entire' originality | p. 98 |
Deep originality | p. 103 |
The onlie begetter | p. 108 |
The commonwealth and the general mind | p. 113 |
The uses of unoriginality: Eliot and misquotation | p. 120 |
Conclusions | p. 126 |
Charles Reade: The Realist as Plagiarist | p. 130 |
Factual fictions | p. 130 |
The double vision of Charles Reade | p. 136 |
The 'Great System' | p. 141 |
Conclusions | p. 154 |
Aesthetics of Salvage in the Fin-de-Siecle: Originality and Plagiarism in Pater, Wilde, and Johnson | p. 158 |
Introduction | p. 158 |
The cultivation of style and the breakdown of unity | p. 164 |
Jewel-setting | p. 168 |
Novitas: the turn to the dictionary | p. 172 |
Refinement | p. 177 |
Talent and tradition: the return to the library | p. 183 |
'Ancestral voices': the ghosts of Lionel Johnson | p. 193 |
Conclusions | p. 209 |
Bibliography | p. 212 |
Index | p. 237 |
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