Book contents
- 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 Three - Parody; or, The Art of Writing Edward Bulwer Lytton
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
After finishing Great Expectations, in June 1861, Charles Dickens visited Knebworth, the family estate of his friend and fellow author Edward Bulwer Lytton. The famous (or notorious) result of this encounter was that Dickens changed the ending of his novel prior to its publication in All the Year Round. Upon sending the last installment of the serial to Bulwer Lytton, Dickens wrote, “I hope you will like the alteration that is entirely due to you.”
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- Plagiarizing the Victorian NovelImitation, Parody, Aftertext, pp. 92 - 113Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019