Article: Pettitt, Clare. Patent Inventions: Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel.(Book review)

PETTITT, Clare. Patent Inventions: Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). xiii + 341 pp. $55.00.

Writers and inventors have always faced the danger of being collapsed in the popular mind. Clare Pettitt would argue that this risk was especially prevalent in Victorian England. In her densely-researched book, she offers an account of the ways in which popular understandings of literary artistry and technology informed one another. Pettitt's rich study begins from the premise that from the 1830s to the 1890s "originality and utility proved difficult terms to balance in a debate that veered between the extremes of a ...

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