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Reappearing Characters in Nineteenth-Century French Literature - Authorship, Originality, and Intellectual Property (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Reappearing Characters in Nineteenth-Century French Literature - Authorship, Originality, and Intellectual Property (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
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This book examines the phenomenon of the reappearance of characters
in nineteenth-century French fiction. It approaches this from a
hitherto unexplored perspective: that of the twin history of the
aesthetic notion of originality and the legal notion of literary
property. While the reappearance of characters in the works of
canonical authors such as Honore de Balzac and Emile Zola is
usually seen as a device which transforms the individual works of
an author into a coherent whole, this book argues that the
unprecedented systematisation of the reappearance of characters in
the nineteenth century has to be seen within a wider cultural,
economic, and legal context. While fictional characters are seen as
original creations by their authors, from a legal point of view
they are considered to be 'ideas' which are not protected and can
be appropriated by anyone. By co-examining the reappearance of
characters in the work of canonical authors and their reappearances
in unauthorised appropriations, such as stage adaptations and
sequels, this book discusses a series of issues that have shaped
our understanding of authorship, originality, and property.
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