Geoffrey Turnovsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 1055041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey Turnovsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Turnovsky |
| SIGNATURE | TURNOVSKY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Llevar el mundo de los libros al grand public: Roger Chartier y el arte de la reseña
Roger Chartier y las migraciones históricas de la cultura escrita
Literary History Meets the History of Reading
This article revisits the letters written by readers of the Mercure galant who responded to the “gallant question,” posed by the periodical's editor in an April 1678 issue, regarding a central plot twist of Madame de Lafayette's novel La Princesse de Clèves. Highlighting the expansive, democratic, and participatory nature of this readership that connected with the unprecedented complexity of the novel's characters, scholars have imputed to this p…
Jennifer TSIEN. The Bad Taste of Others: Judging Literary Value in Eighteenth-Century France
Journal Article Jennifer Tsien. The Bad Taste of Others: Judging Literary Value in Eighteenth-Century France. Get access Jennifer Tsien. The Bad Taste of Others: Judging Literary Value in Eighteenth-Century France.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2012. Pp. 267. $47.50. Geoffrey Turnovsky Geoffrey Turnovsky University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Revie…
The Literary Market: Authorship and Modernity in the Old Regime
This study offers a new reading of the development of modern authorship in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, through a detailed reexamination of one of the central mythologies of this evolution: the author's passage from dependence on patronage to the autonomy of the market
The making of a name: A life of Voltaire
Voltaire's eighteenth-century biographer Theophile Duvernet records an exchange from 1713 when the future philosophe, just 19 years old and completing his studies at the prestigious Jesuit Collège Louis-le-Grand in Paris, defies his father's insistence that he find a decent profession: 'I don't want any other than that of man of letters' ('je n'en veux pas d'autre que celui d'homme de lettres'). Two key points emerge from this remark.
Vivre de sa plume» réflexions sur un topos de l' auctorialité moderne
Que veut dire « vivre de sa plume»? L'expression a souvent été invoquée par des historiens avançant le récit d'un progrès dans les pratiques littéraires marqué par le passage des écrivains du patronage au marché, afin de définir la « modernité » auctoriale par rapport à un modèle ancien de l'homme de lettres protégé par la noblesse. Or un examen plus attentif montrera que ce progrès vers une autonomie gagnée par la vente des écrits n'est guère au…
Literary History Meets the History of Reading
This article revisits the letters written by readers of the Mercure galant who responded to the “gallant question,” posed by the periodical's editor in an April 1678 issue, regarding a central plot twist of Madame de Lafayette's novel La Princesse de Clèves. Highlighting the expansive, democratic, and participatory nature of this readership that connected with the unprecedented complexity of the novel's characters, scholars have imputed to this p…
Vivre de sa plume» réflexions sur un topos de l' auctorialité moderne
Que veut dire « vivre de sa plume»? L'expression a souvent été invoquée par des historiens avançant le récit d'un progrès dans les pratiques littéraires marqué par le passage des écrivains du patronage au marché, afin de définir la « modernité » auctoriale par rapport à un modèle ancien de l'homme de lettres protégé par la noblesse. Or un examen plus attentif montrera que ce progrès vers une autonomie gagnée par la vente des écrits n'est guère au…
Vivre de sa plume» réflexions sur un topos de l' auctorialité moderne
Que veut dire « vivre de sa plume»? L'expression a souvent été invoquée par des historiens avançant le récit d'un progrès dans les pratiques littéraires marqué par le passage des écrivains du patronage au marché, afin de définir la « modernité » auctoriale par rapport à un modèle ancien de l'homme de lettres protégé par la noblesse. Or un examen plus attentif montrera que ce progrès vers une autonomie gagnée par la vente des écrits n'est guère au…
The making of a name: A life of Voltaire
Voltaire's eighteenth-century biographer Theophile Duvernet records an exchange from 1713 when the future philosophe, just 19 years old and completing his studies at the prestigious Jesuit Collège Louis-le-Grand in Paris, defies his father's insistence that he find a decent profession: 'I don't want any other than that of man of letters' ('je n'en veux pas d'autre que celui d'homme de lettres'). Two key points emerge from this remark.
The Literary Market: Authorship and Modernity in the Old Regime
This study offers a new reading of the development of modern authorship in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, through a detailed reexamination of one of the central mythologies of this evolution: the author's passage from dependence on patronage to the autonomy of the market
Jennifer TSIEN. The Bad Taste of Others: Judging Literary Value in Eighteenth-Century France
Journal Article Jennifer Tsien. The Bad Taste of Others: Judging Literary Value in Eighteenth-Century France. Get access Jennifer Tsien. The Bad Taste of Others: Judging Literary Value in Eighteenth-Century France.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2012. Pp. 267. $47.50. Geoffrey Turnovsky Geoffrey Turnovsky University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Revie…
Literary History Meets the History of Reading
This article revisits the letters written by readers of the Mercure galant who responded to the “gallant question,” posed by the periodical's editor in an April 1678 issue, regarding a central plot twist of Madame de Lafayette's novel La Princesse de Clèves. Highlighting the expansive, democratic, and participatory nature of this readership that connected with the unprecedented complexity of the novel's characters, scholars have imputed to this p…
Llevar el mundo de los libros al grand public: Roger Chartier y el arte de la reseña
Roger Chartier y las migraciones históricas de la cultura escrita
Art (6 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Historical and Literary Analyses (3 works) · History (3 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · 17th century (1 works)