This book deals with changing conditions and conceptions of authorship in the long eighteenth century, a period said to have witnessed the birth of the modern author. Challenging claims about the public sphere and the professional writer, it engages with recent work on print culture and the history of the book and takes up such under-treated topics as the forms of literary careers and the persistence of the Renaissance "republic of letters" into the "age of authors."
- ISBN10 1611496128
- ISBN13 9781611496123
- Publish Date 2 November 2015 (first published 1 January 2013)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Associated University Presses
- Imprint University of Delaware Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 218
- Language English