# Pastiche and prejudice Author: Walkley, Arthur Bingham, 1855-1926 Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68853 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Pastiche+and+prejudice+Walkley&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary Writing of Lamennais, Renan says: “Il créa avec des réminiscences de la Bible et du langage ecclésiastique cette manière harmonieuse et grandiose qui réalise le phénomène unique dans l’histoire littéraire d’un pastiche de génie.” Renan was nothing if not fastidious, and “unique” is a hard word, for which I should like to substitute the milder “rare.” _Pastiches_ “of genius” are rare because genius is rare in any kind, and more than ever rare in that kind wherein the writer deliberately forgoes his own natural, instinctive form of expression for an alien form. But even fairly plausible _pastiches_ are rare, for the simple reason that though, with taste and application, and above all an anx... ## Chapters - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pastiche-and-prejudice-68853/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pastiche-and-prejudice-68853/chapters/14/index.md) - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pastiche-and-prejudice-68853/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pastiche-and-prejudice-68853/chapters/12/index.md) - [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pastiche-and-prejudice-68853/chapters/10/index.md) - [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pastiche-and-prejudice-68853/chapters/7/index.md) - [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pastiche-and-prejudice-68853/chapters/13/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pastiche-and-prejudice-68853/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pastiche-and-prejudice-68853/chapters/6/index.md) - [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pastiche-and-prejudice-68853/chapters/16/index.md) - [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pastiche-and-prejudice-68853/chapters/8/index.md) - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pastiche-and-prejudice-68853/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pastiche-and-prejudice-68853/chapters/11/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pastiche-and-prejudice-68853/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pastiche-and-prejudice-68853/chapters/15/index.md) - [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pastiche-and-prejudice-68853/chapters/9/index.md) - [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/pastiche-and-prejudice-68853/chapters/17/index.md)