TY - JOUR
AU - Løfaldli, Eli
AB - Forum for Modern Language Studies Vol. , No. , doi: ./fmls/cqv INTRODUCTION APPROPRIATION OF AND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TOM JONES AND ELI LØFALDLI THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY eagerness to engage in appropriative modes of writing is a well-known and thoroughly documented phenomenon, and it is an uncontested fact that the period’s writers were keen borrowers, pillagers, reworkers and rewriters of each other’s works and of works by their forebears. The inherently intertextual nature of literature more generally is equally uncontroversial. However, in spite of the sustained interest in such phenomena and the massive number of valuable case studies of literary adaptation and appropriation contributed over the years, the field can still be said to be characterized by terminological slippage, theoretical unsettledness and methodological uncertainty. Trying to overcome some of the theoretical and methodological challenges that this field of study faces is essential to any effort eventually to arrive at a more coherent and cohesive framework for understanding the appropriative modes of writing so characteristic of the period. And, in a similar fashion, the writing practices and common attitudes of the eighteenth-century literary world may also provide helpful tools for bettering our understanding of literary appropriation in general terms. The essays 
TI - Introduction: Appropriation Of and In the Eighteenth Century
JO - Forum for Modern Language Studies
DO - 10.1093/fmls/cqv001
DA - 2015-04-13
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/introduction-appropriation-of-and-in-the-eighteenth-century-IBtWettv7S
SP - 91
EP - 99
VL - 51
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -