Patent inventions--intellectual property and the Victorian novel /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Clare Pettitt.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2004.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (ix, 341 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-333) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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Title
Patent inventions--intellectual property and the Victorian novel.
International Standard Book Number
019925320X
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
Intellectual property in literature.
Inventions in literature.
Law in literature.
Literature and science-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
Patent laws and legislation-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.