Plagiarama!

Geoffrey Sanborn

earliest edition we have, 2016 Columbia University Press, 2016 224 pages

"William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was a vocal abolitionist, a frequent antagonist of Frederick Douglass, and the author of Clotel, the first known novel by an African American. He was also an extensive plagiarist, copying at least 87,000 words from close to 300 texts. In this critical study of Brown's work and legacy, Geoffrey Sanborn offers a novel reading of the writer's plagiarism, arguing the act was a means of ca...

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Plagiarama! edition · 2019 · Columbia University Press · 224 pages · 9780231174435
Plagiarama! edition · 2016 · Columbia University Press · 224 pages · 9780231174428
Plagiarama! edition · 2016 · Columbia University Press · 224 pages · 9780231540582

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