The Literary Market : Authorship and Modernity in the Old Regime [1 ed.] 9780812203578, 9780812241952

The Literary Market: Authorship and Modernity in the Old Regime 9780812203578

This study offers a new reading of the development of modern authorship in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, t

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The literary underground of the Old Regime 9780674536562, 9780674536579

Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers

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Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France 9780226522890

From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of th

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Tocqueville and Old Regime 9781400879311

Professor Herr's brief and attractively presented Tocqueville and the Old Regime is to be commended to all who are

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Old Age in the Old Regime: Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France 9781501746369

This book explores a dramatic change in French attitudes toward aging and the aged in the eighteenth century from one ex

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Colonialism and Science: Saint Domingue and the Old Regime 9780226514680

How was the character of science shaped by the colonial experience? In turn, how might we make sense of how science cont

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Montesquieu and the Old Regime [Reprint 2020 ed.] 9780520335554

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The Writer on Film: Screening Literary Authorship 0230313841, 9780230313842

Recent years have seen a striking surge in the production of literary biopics. Writers turned cinema subject in recent f

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The Kierkegaardian Author: Authorship and Performance in Kierkegaard's Literary and Dramatic Criticism 9783110200973, 9783110193022

This study engages in a detailed examination of Kierkegaard’s works of literary and dramatic criticism, including those

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Russia Under Old Regime 0684148269

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