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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
Chapter Two - Charles Dickens and the Pseudo-Dickens Industry
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 word Dickensian is older than the OED records. From 1881, eleven years after Charles Dickens’s death, the dictionary cites an Athenaeum review, which describes the American journalist and humorist Bret Harte: “He has a touch of Dickens in his style; he has trained his imagination to walk with a Dickensian gait; he observes with a Dickensian eye.” While the OED concedes that the awkward coinage Dickenesque and the cheerier Dickensy appeared earlier (in 1856 and 1859, respectively), the more familiar Dickensian is older still.
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- Plagiarizing the Victorian NovelImitation, Parody, Aftertext, pp. 59 - 91Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019