The Literary Market : : Authorship and Modernity in the Old Regime / / Geoffrey Turnovsky.
A central theme in the history of Old Regime authorship highlights the opportunities offered by a growing book trade to writers seeking to free themselves from patrons and live "by the pen." Accounts of this passage from patronage to market have explored in far greater detail the opportuni...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: writing, publishing, and literary identity in the "prehistory of droit d'auteur"
- Introduction: the story of a transition: when and how did writers become "modern"?
- 1. literary commerce in the age of honnête publication
- 2. the paradoxes of enlightenment publishing
- Part II: the literary market: the making of a modern cultural field
- Introduction: reconsidering the alternative
- 3. "living by the pen": mythologies of modern authorial autonomy
- 4. Economic claims and legal battles: writers turn to the market
- 5. The reality of a new cultural field: the case of rousseau
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments