LEADER 05184nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910463891703321 005 20211012025518.0 010 $a1-283-89100-X 010 $a0-8122-0357-7 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203578 035 $a(CKB)3170000000047019 035 $a(OCoLC)794925525 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10594435 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000605952 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11361115 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000605952 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10580451 035 $a(PQKB)10473030 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441710 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse11962 035 $a(DE-B1597)449221 035 $a(OCoLC)979779007 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203578 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441710 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10594435 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420350 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000047019 100 $a20090507d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe literary market$b[electronic resource] $eauthorship and modernity in the old regime /$fGeoffrey Turnovsky 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (293 p.) 225 0 $aMaterial Texts 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-4195-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tPart I: writing, publishing, and literary identity in the "prehistory of droit d'auteur" --$tIntroduction: the story of a transition: when and how did writers become "modern"? --$t1. literary commerce in the age of honnête publication --$t2. the paradoxes of enlightenment publishing --$tPart II: the literary market: the making of a modern cultural field --$tIntroduction: reconsidering the alternative --$t3. "living by the pen": mythologies of modern authorial autonomy --$t4. Economic claims and legal battles: writers turn to the market --$t5. The reality of a new cultural field: the case of Rousseau --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aA central theme in the history of Old Regime authorship highlights the opportunities offered by a growing book trade to writers seeking to free themselves from patrons and live "by the pen." Accounts of this passage from patronage to market have explored in far greater detail the opportunities themselves-the rising sums paid by publishers and the progression of laws protecting literary property-than how and why writers would have seized on them, no doubt because the choice to do so has seemed an obvious or natural one for writers assumed to prefer economic self-sufficiency over elite protection. In The Literary Market, Geoffrey Turnovsky claims that there was nothing obvious or natural about the choice. Writers had been involved in commercial book publication since the earliest days of the printing press, yet had not necessarily linked these activities with their freedom to think and write. The association of autonomy and professionalism was forged, not given. Analyzing the literary market as a key articulation of the association, Turnovsky explores how in eighteenth-century polemics a rhetoric of commercial authorship came to signify independence for intellectuals. He finds the roots of the connection not in the claims of entrepreneurial writers to rights and income but in a world to which that of the modern author has been contrasted: the aristocratic culture of the seventeenth century. Aristocratic culture, he argues, generated a disparaging view of the professional author as one defined by activities tainting him or her as greedy and arrogant and therefore unworthy of protection and socially isolated. The Literary Market examines the story of the "birth of the author" in terms of the revalorization of this negative trope in Enlightenment-era debates about the radically changing role of writers in society. 410 0$aMaterial texts. 606 $aFrench literature$y17th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFrench literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAuthorship$xEconomic aspects$zFrance$xHistory 606 $aLiterature publishing$zFrance$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aLiterature publishing$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aBook industries and trade$zFrance$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aBook industries and trade$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAuthorship$xEconomic aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aLiterature publishing$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature publishing$xHistory 615 0$aBook industries and trade$xHistory 615 0$aBook industries and trade$xHistory 676 $a840.9004 700 $aTurnovsky$b Geoffrey$01055568 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463891703321 996 $aThe literary market$92489088 997 $aUNINA