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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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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

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