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

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

This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced in the early nineteenth century. Bold

Are legal concepts of intellectual property and copyright related to artistic notions of invention and originality? Do literary and legal scholars have anything

Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this companion provides scholars