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Imitation in literature

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• Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age (2008), ed. by Caroline Eisner and Martha Vicinus (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1994), by Ann W. Astell (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Virgil and the Tempest: The Politics of Imitation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Donna B. Hamilton (PDF at Ohio State)
• Pope's Horatian Poems (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1966), by Thomas E. Maresca (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Glance Beyond Doubt: Narration, Representation, Subjectivity (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1996), by Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan (PDF at Ohio State)
• Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect (originally published 1998; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Hayden V. White (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Beasts of the Modern Imagination: Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence (originally published 1985; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Margot Norris (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Scenes of Sympathy: Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2000), by Audrey Jaffe (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Challenge of Bewilderment: Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford, by Paul B. Armstrong
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open
  • HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE

• Conjectures on Original Composition, by Edward Young (HTML at Toronto)

• Who Owns This Text?: Plagiarism, Authorship, and Disciplinary Cultures (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2009), ed. by Carol Peterson Haviland and Joan A. Mullin (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age (2008), ed. by Caroline Eisner and Martha Vicinus (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Ueber Plagiate: Eine Deuterologie (in Geran; Berlin: K. W. Krüger, 1851), by K. W. Krüger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the Investigative Committee of the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct at the University of Colorado at Boulder Concerning Allegations of Academic Misconduct Against Professor Ward Churchill (2006), by University of Colorado, Boulder (PDF at du.edu)

• International Journal for Educational Integrity (full serial archives)

• Why Do We Quote? The Culture and History of Quotation (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2011), by Ruth H. Finnegan
  • multiple formats at Open Book Publishers
  • page images at Google

• Why Do We Quote? The Culture and History of Quotation (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2011), by Ruth H. Finnegan
  • multiple formats at Open Book Publishers
  • page images at Google

• Gendered Interventions: Narrative Discourse in the Victorian Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Robyn R. Warhol (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Philosophy of Style, by Herbert Spencer (Gutenberg text)
• The Principles of Success in Literature, by George Henry Lewes (Gutenberg text)
• The Principles of Success in Literature (London et al.: W. Scott Pub. Co., ca. 1898), by George Henry Lewes, ed. by T. Sharper Knowlson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Style, by Walter Raleigh (Gutenberg text)
• The Handling of Words, and Other Studies in Literary Psychology (London: J. Lane, c1923), by Vernon Lee (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The Act of Writing: A Media Theory Approach, by Daniel Chandler (Word with commentary in the UK)
• Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, by Walter Pater
  • PDF at victorianprose.org
  • Gutenberg text
• British Desperadoes at the Turn of the Millennium, by Lidia Vianu
  • PDF at liternet.ro
  • HTML at e-scoala.ro (scroll down past the ads)
• The Function of Criticism at the Present Time, by Matthew Arnold (HTML at Toronto)
• Paradoxism's Main Roots, by Florin Vasiliu, trans. by Stefan Benea (PDF at UNM)
• The Literary Bible of Thomas Jefferson: His Commonplace Book of Philosophers and Poets (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press; Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1928), by Thomas Jefferson, ed. by Gilbert Chinard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Desperado Age: British Literature at the Start of the Third Millennium, by Lidia Vianu
  • PDF at liternet.ro
  • HTML at e-scoala.ro (scroll down past the ads)
• Alan Brownjohn and the Desperado Age, by Lidia Vianu
  • PDF at liternet.ro
  • HTML at e-scoala.ro (scroll down past the ads)

• Demetrius on Style: The Greek Text of Demetrius De Elocutione, Edited After the Paris Manuscript, With Introduction, Translation, Facsimiles, etc. (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1902), by Demetrius of Phaleron, ed. by W. Rhys Roberts (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Crime in Verse: the Poetics of Murder in the Victorian Era (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Ellen L. O'Brien (PDF at Ohio State)
• Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1997), by Egbert J. Bakker (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Literary Lectures Presented at the Library of Congress (Washington: Library of Congress, 1973), contrib. by Thomas Mann, T. S. Eliot, R. P. Blackmur, Archibald Henderson, Irving Stone, John O'Hara, MacKinlay Kantor, John Crowe Ransom, Delmore Schwartz, John Hall Wheelock, Robert Hillyer, Pierre Emmanuel, Cleanth Brooks, Richard Wilbur, Leon Edel, Alain Bosquet, Hans Egon Holthusen, Erich Heller, Marc Slonim, Lin Yutang, Giose Rimanelli, Arturo Torres-Rioseco, Stephen Spender, Saul Bellow, Louis Untermeyer, Ralph Ellison, Karl Shapiro, and Reed Whittemore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books Alive: A Profane Chronicle of Literary Endeavor and Literary Misdemeanor (New York: Random House, 1940), by Vincent Starrett, contrib. by Christopher Morley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dark Conceit: The Making of Allegory (open access reprint; originally published Evanston: Northwestern University Press, ca. 1959), by Edwin Honig (PDF at Northwestern)
• It Needs to Be Said... (c1929), by Frederick Philip Grove (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Essays (New York: Harper and Bros., 1922), by Percy Stickney Grant
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Books and Habits From the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn, by Lafcadio Hearn, ed. by John Erskine (Gutenberg text)
• The Cutting of an Agate (New York: Macmillan, 1912), by W. B. Yeats
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Essays in Little, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Function of the Poet, and Other Essays, by James Russell Lowell, ed. by Albert Mordell (Gutenberg text)
• Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Authorities, by Anne C. Lynch Botta (Gutenberg text)
• Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature (partial serial archives)
• Hieroglyphics (London: Grant Richards, 1902), by Arthur Machen (page images at Google; US access only)
• Initiation Into Literature, by Émile Faguet, trans. by Home Gordon (Gutenberg text)
• Letters on Literature, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
• Literary Hours: or, Sketches Critical, Narrative, and Poetical (third edition, 3 volumes; London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804), by Nathan Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Literary Passions, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• Post Liminium: Essays and Critical Papers (London: E. Mathews, 1911), by Lionel Johnson, ed. by Thomas Whittemore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pot-Boilers (London: Chatto and Windus, 1918), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
• Studies, Stories, and Memoirs (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1888), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Works of William H. Prescott (Montezuma edition, 22 volumes; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1904), by William Hickling Prescott, ed. by Wilfred Harold Munro, contrib. by John Foster Kirk, William Robertson, and George Ticknor
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Obiter Dicta, by Augustine Birrell (Gutenberg text)
• Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1900), by George Santayana (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Letters to Dead Authors, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
• The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Friedrich von Schlegel: Comprising Letters on Christian Art; An Essay on Gothic Architecture; Remarks on the Romance-Poetry of the Middle Ages and on Shakspere; On the Limits of the Beautiful; On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians (London: H. G. Bohn, 1860), by Friedrich von Schlegel, trans. by E. J. Millington
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google
• Kleinere Schriften (3 volumes, in German; Weimar: E. Felber, 1898-1900), by Reinhold Köhler, ed. by Johannes Bolte
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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