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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Turnovsky, Geoffrey
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010.
Series:Material texts.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.