Title Patent inventions--intellectual property and the Victorian novel / Clare Pettitt

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 341 pages) Contents Intro; Contents; List of Figures; Abbreviations; 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; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H IJ; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; W; Y Summary This volume suggests that the fierce debates over patent law and the discussion of invention and inventors in popular texts during the 19th century informed the parallel debate over the professional status of authors Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-333) and index Notes Print version record Subject 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. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English fiction Intellectual life Intellectual property in literature Inventions in literature Law in literature Literature and science Patent laws and legislation Patents in literature Romans. Victoriaanse tijd. Intellectuele eigendom. English Literature. English. Languages & Literatures. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056856 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 1423767837 9781423767831 1280759410 9781280759413 9780199253203 019925320X

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