tailieunhanh - Patent Inventions— Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel

It is impossible to think about intellectual property for as long as this book has taken to write, and not to become acutely aware of one’s own roster of intellectual debts, while also realizing the impos- sibility of enumerating each one. But there are some people whose help has been so extraordinarily generous that I would like to record my special thanks to them. Kate Flint was the inspirational super- viser of my Oxford . thesis who uncomplainingly read numer- ous subsequent drafts as it transmuted into this book, and whose continued friendship, now beamed from the other side of the Atlantic, has been a constant source of. | PATENT INVENTIONS Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel CLARE PETTITT Patent Inventions Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel Frontispiece. Illustration for Charles Dickens s A Poor Man s Tale of a Patent by Fred Walker 1858 . Reprinted from Charles Dickens Reprinted Pieces The Lamplighter To Be Read at Dusk Sunday Under Three Heads Centennial Edition of the Complete Works Heron Books 1969 114. By permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library.