Lost illusions : the politics of publishing in nineteenth-century France / Christine Haynes.
Linking the study of business and politics, Christine Haynes reconstructs the passionate and protracted debate over the development of the book trade in nineteenth-century France. In tracing the contest over literary production in France, Haynes emphasizes the role of the Second Empire in enacting -...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Harvard historical studies ;
v. 167. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the dawn of the information marketplace
- The birth of the publisher
- The battle between corporatists and liberals
- Laurent-Antoine Pagnerre and the publishing coterie
- The Cercle de la librairie
- Louis Hachette and the defense of the publisher
- The divorce between state and market
- Epilogue : the effects of liberalization.