The Literary Market Holly Stewart Australian

Australian

are actually the result of economics

This approach reflects the way in which the field is organised

Victor J Seidler

yet accessible enough for a lay audience

The Literary Market Holly Stewart AustralianA 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