Title: Writers on the market
Description: "The beginning of the seventeenth century in Spain marked a rapid rise in the commercial market for cultural production. This work examines the evolution of the commercial market as reflected in the maturation of two genres: the public theater and the novel. Through a comparative analysis of the playwright Lope de Vega and the novelists Mateo Aleman and Miguel de Cervantes, this study explores the new poetic principles, both implicit and explicit, that accompany the rise of commercialized literature and argues that the logic of classical economic theory became internalized within the poetic structure of these two genres."--Jacket.
Subjects: Authors and publishers, Authors and readers, Authorship, History, History and criticism, Literary publishing, Literature and society, Marketing, Spanish literature, Literature publishing, Spanish literature, history and criticism, Authorship, marketing
Places: Spain
Time periods: 17th century, Classical period, 1500-1700