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..
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.