Views the Victorian novel through the prism of literary imitations that it inspired.

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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

In Thinking without Thinking in the Victorian Novel, Vanessa L. Ryan demonstrates how both the form and the experience of reading novels played an important rol

A new edition of this standard work, fully updated with four brand new chapters.