The Literary Market Holly Stewart Victor J Seidler

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The Literary Market Holly Stewart Victor J SeidlerA 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