Book Details
Orange Code:91829
Paperback:356 pages
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1. Introductory. Heroes and Hero-Worship: Inventors and Writers from 1818 to 19002. Property in Labour: Inventors and Writers in the 1830s and 1840s3. The Art of Inventing and the Inventor as Artist: Intellectual Property at the Great Exhibition4. ‘The spirit of craft and money-making’: The Indignities of Literature in the 1850s5. Women, Risk, and Intellectual Property: Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot in the 1860s6. ‘The singing of the wire’: Hardy, International Copyright, and the Ether
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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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