The Literary Market : Authorship and Modernity in the Old Regime.

Cover -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

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.

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