 | The Literary Market: Authorship and Modernity in the Old Regime Subjects: French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism; French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Authorship -- Economic aspects -- France -- History; Litertaure publishing -- France -- History -- 17th century; Literature publishing; 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. Geoffrey Turnovsky teaches French at the University of Washington. |
