Literary market, the: authorship and modernity in the old regime
Auteur :
Turnovsky, Geoffrey
Éditeur :
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN :
9780812241952
Date de publication :
1 déc. 2009
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Format :
Paper over boards
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.