Lost Illusions
Author | : Christine Haynes |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2010-01-15 |
ISBN-10 | : 0674035763 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780674035768 |
Rating | : 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Download or read book Lost Illusions written by Christine Haynes and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linking the study of business and politics, 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—but also in limiting—press freedom and literary property.