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Patent inventions--intellectual property and the Victorian novel
- Title
- Patent inventions--intellectual property and the Victorian novel / Clare Pettitt.
- Author
- Pettitt, Clare.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Book/Text | Use in library | PR878.I65 P47 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- ix, 341 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Patent Inventions argues that Victorian writers used the novel not just to reflect, but also to challenge received notions of intellectual ownership and responsibility. It ends by suggesting that detailed study of the debate over intellectual property in the nineteenth century leads to a better understanding of the complex negotiations over the bounds of selfhood and social responsibility in the period."--Jacket.
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Inventions in literature
- Patent laws and legislation > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Intellectual property in literature
- Patents in literature
- Law in literature
- 18.05 English literature
- English fiction
- Intellectual life
- Literature and science
- Patent laws and legislation
- Romans
- Victoriaanse tijd
- Intellectuele eigendom
- Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-333) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introductory. Heroes and Hero-Worship: Inventors and Writers from 1818 to 1900 -- 2. Property in Labour: Inventors and Writers in the 1830s and 1840s -- 3. The Art of Inventing and the Inventor as Artist: Intellectual Property at the Great Exhibition -- 4. The spirit of craft and money-making': The Indignities of Literature in the 1850s -- 5. Women, Risk and Intellectual Property: Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot in the 1860s -- 6. 'The singing of the wire': Hardy, International Copyright, and the Ether.
- ISBN
- 019925320X
- 9780199253203
- LCCN
- 2004049211
- OCLC
- ocm54904267
- 54904267
- SCSB-14510481
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library