Table of Contents

* List of Illustrations * Acknowledgments * 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 * Notes * Index

Promotional Information

In this impressively researched and clearly written book on the publishing industry in nineteenth-century France, Haynes argues for the surprising role of the Second Empire in liberalizing the literary market, the centrality of state policy rather than market forces in the deregulation of the industry, and the dynamic role of entrepreneurs in lobbying for reforms. Lost Illusions is an original and important study of the transformation of the literary marketplace from the First Empire to the Third Republic. -- Gregory S. Brown, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

About the Author

Christine Haynes is Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Reviews

In this impressively researched and clearly written book on the publishing industry in nineteenth-century France, Haynes argues for the surprising role of the Second Empire in liberalizing the literary market, the centrality of state policy rather than market forces in the deregulation of the industry, and the dynamic role of entrepreneurs in lobbying for reforms. Lost Illusions is an original and important study of the transformation of the literary marketplace from the First Empire to the Third Republic.
*Gregory S. Brown, University of Nevada, Las Vegas*