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1044461
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b798831
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| Main Entry
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Pettitt, Clare.
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| Title & Author
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Patent inventions--intellectual property and the Victorian novel /\ Clare Pettitt.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2004.
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1 online resource (ix, 341 pages)
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| ISBN
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1280759410
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: 1423767837
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: 9781280759413
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: 9781423767831
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019925320X
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-333) and index.
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| Contents
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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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IJ; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; W; Y
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| 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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English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Intellectual property in literature.
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Inventions in literature.
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Law in literature.
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Literature and science-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Patent laws and legislation-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Patents in literature.
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English fiction.
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English Literature.
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English.
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Intellectual life.
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Intellectual property in literature.
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Inventions in literature.
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Languages Literatures.
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Law in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature and science.
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Patent laws and legislation.
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Patents in literature.
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Intellectuele eigendom.
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Romans.
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Victoriaanse tijd.
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Great Britain, Intellectual life, 19th century.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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823/.8093554
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| LC Classification
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PR878.I65P47 2004eb
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