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Patent Inventions - Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel (Hardcover, New)
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Patent Inventions - Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel (Hardcover, New)
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Although much has been written about the history of copyright and
authorship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, very little
attention has been given to the impact of the development of other
kinds of intellectual property on the ways in which writers viewed
their work in this period. This book is the first to suggest that
the fierce debates over patent law and the discussion of invention
and inventors in popular texts during the nineteenth century
informed the parallel debate over the professional status of
authors. The book examines the shared rhetoric surrounding the
creation of the 'inventor' and the 'author' in the debate of the
1830s, and the challenge of the emerging technologies of mass
production to traditional ideas of art and industry is addressed in
a chapter on authorship at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Subsequent
chapters show how novelists Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and
George Eliot participated in debates over the value and ownership
of labour in the 1850s, such as patent reform and the controversy
over married women's property. The book shows the ways in which
these were reflected in their novels. It also suggests that the
publication of those novels, and the celebrity of their authors,
had a substantial effect on the subsequent direction of these
debates. The final chapter shows that Thomas Hardy's later fiction
reflects an important shift in thinking about creativity and
ownership towards the end of the century. 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.
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