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This article focuses on the human involvement in the process of intertextuality in Anne Brontё’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. By examining various moments and degrees of intertextual process in the novel, I show that intertextuality is not a network of textual interplay that disregards any trace of human involvement but the site that allows for the writer’s and the reader’s active engagement in the text and with each other. The instances of “mixed intertextuality” show the writer’s force behind the textual web and his/her sense of interdependency with the reader in the meaning-making process. And the moments of “embedded intertextuality” demonstrate that the text’s meaning is derived not from the text itself but from the context in which the author situates other texts. As the writer actively synthesizes various elements from other texts by stitching together others’ textual voices into a patchwork of intertext, he/she does it in such a way that the reader becomes a constituent part in the meaning-making process.
