Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I: writing, publishing, and literary identity in the “prehistory of droit d’auteur”
5. Introduction: the story of a transition: when and how did writers become “modern”? 15
6. 1. literary commerce in the age of honnête publication 25
7. 2. the paradoxes of enlightenment publishing 63
8. Part II: the literary market: the making of a modern cultural field
9. Introduction: reconsidering the alternative 105
10. 3. “living by the pen”: mythologies of modern authorial autonomy 113
11. 4. Economic claims and legal battles: writers turn to the market 147
12. 5. The reality of a new cultural field: the case of rousseau 184
13. Conclusion 204
14. Notes 211
15. Bibliography 265
16. Index 279
17. Acknowledgments 285