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The literary market : authorship and modernity in the old regime /

This study offers a new reading of the development of modern authorship in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, through a detailed reexamination of one of the central mythologies of this evolution: the author's passage from dependence on patronage to the autonomy of the market.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Turnovsky, Geoffrey
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010.
Colección:Material texts.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Literary commerce in the age of honnête publication
  • The paradoxes of enlightenment publishing
  • "Living by the pen": mythologies of modern authorial autonomy
  • Economic claims and legal battles: writers turn to the market
  • The reality of a new cultural field: the case of Rousseau.