Clare Pettitt

Clare Pettitt has taught at the universities of Oxford, Leeds and Cambridge and is currently Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture at King’s College London. She has written four books and is currently working on a fifth. Patent Inventions: Intellectual Property and the Victorian Novel (2004) looked at how writers and mechanical inventors styled themselves on one another in the nineteenth century. 'Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?': Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers and Empire (2007) went back to the iconic meeting between Stanley and Livingstone to show the clash of African and European modernities. Her most recent book, Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848 (2020) looks at how a sudden outpouring of print in the early nineteenth century changed British political and social culture and reorganised people's sense of time. Serial Revolutions 1848: Writing, Politics, Form is coming out later in 2021 and argues that the European Revolutions of 1848 are still relevant and important today.