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Patent Inventions: Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel

By Clare Pettitt

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
019925320X, 9780199253203, 9781423767831
LCC
PR878.I65 P47 2004
Open Library ID
OL22580328M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1968302 bytes)
Pages
360\356
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book examines the shared rhetoric surrounding the creation of the "inventor" and the "author" in the 1830s, and the challenge of the emerging technologies of mass production to traditional ideas of art and industry. Patent Inventions argues that Victorian writers used the novel not just to reflect, but also to challenge received notions of intellectual ownership and responsibility, using close readings of work by Dickens, Thackeray, Gaskell, Eliot, and Hardy.

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