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- Title
Servir le public ou l'industrie du livre ? Représentations et postures dans le Journal littéraire au début du XVIII<sup>e</sup> siècle.
- Authors
Hansen, Ann-Marie
- Abstract
Discourse regarding scholarly periodicals at the beginning of the eighteenth century was characterised by rhetoric according to which they served only their readers' interests. This study of the Journal littéraire suggests that the functioning of a scholarly journal instead depended on the service it provided to the publishing industry. This type of publication served not only the reader for whom the text was intended, but also the specific interests of its journalist-author and publisher, as well as those of the authors and publishers whose publications it mentioned. The scholarly journal concurrently served these multiple—sometimes competing, sometimes mutually beneficial—interests. An example of a conflict between members of the book trade, Prosper Marchand and Pierre Des Maizeaux, reveals the complexity of the situation.
- Subjects
SCHOLARLY periodicals; RHETORIC; PUBLISHING; BOOK industry; PUBLICATIONS
- Publication
University of Toronto Quarterly, 2020, Vol 89, Issue 4, p711
- ISSN
0042-0247
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/utq.89.4.06