Papers by Larisa Castillo
Using Pedagogies of Emergence to Cultivate Wellbeing in Students
British Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
4. Between ‘‘the Cup and the Lip’’: Retroactive Constructions of Inheritance in Our Mutual Friend
Provocations to Reading
4. Between ‘‘the Cup and the Lip’’: Retroactive Constructions of Inheritance in Our Mutual Friend
Fordham University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
Natural Authority in Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit and the Copyright Act of 1842
Nineteenth-Century Literature, 2008
This essay argues that Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit (1843) challenges the legal justif... more This essay argues that Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit (1843) challenges the legal justifications underpinning Sergeant Talfourd's 1842 Copyright Extension Act. The novel does so by problematizing the logic of natural right, a logic adopted by proponents of copyright to defend further copyright extensions. Martin Chuzzlewit's narrator attacks natural right through his representations of inheritance, repeatedly demonstrating how heirs subvert and appropriate testators' natural rights, and thus proving natural right to be a subjective, and even fictional, construct that can be adopted in potentially unjust ways. By destabilizing the logic of natural right, the narrator exposes the ways in which promoters of copyright employed inheritance as a metaphorical tool that allowed them to rationalize copyright extensions, and, in so doing, he threatens the institutions of inheritance, copyright, and authorship. Such a radical critique of intellectual property places Martin...
Natural Authority in Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit and the Copyright Act of 1842
Nineteenth-century Literature, 2008
... LARISA T. CASTILLO ... self-interested, Dickens left the United States angry and exasperated,... more ... LARISA T. CASTILLO ... self-interested, Dickens left the United States angry and exasperated, only to intensify the Americans' antagonism toward him with the publication of his novel, which empha-sized their dishonesty.2 By donning the role of a benevolent tes-tator, Dickens in ...
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