Reappearing Characters in Nineteenth-Century French Literature Authorship, Originality, and Intellectual Property /

• Main Author: Paraschas, Sotirios (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
• Subjects: European literature.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Fiction.; European Literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.

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 ch...