Original Copy

Original Copy PDF

Author: Robert Macfarlane

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007-03-08

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0199296502

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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 was not only a theoretical concern of Victorian commentators on literature, but also provided a creative resource for many important writers including Eliot, Dickens, Pater, and Wilde.

Nineteenth-century American Writers on Writing

Nineteenth-century American Writers on Writing PDF

Author: Brenda Wineapple

Publisher: Writer's World

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781595340696

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Nineteenth-Centuery American Writers on Writing features essays, letters, poems, prose, and excerpts of interviews by fifty-seven leading authors of the century. Each had to figure out what it meant to be a writer within the context of the relatively new nation they spoke to, for, and about. Each meditated on craft and style and form, as writers do. And each confronted the question of how to define themselves as writers--and their literature as "American"--during a century rocked by the industrial revolution, the Civil War, and the emergence of a global politic.

Alphabets to Order

Alphabets to Order PDF

Author: Alastair Johnston

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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This survey combines typographic scholarship and literary criticism to present and discuss hundreds of examples of text, from the arcane to the mundane. The eclectic typography revealed foreshadows many contemporary designs, particularly in poetry and graphic design.

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