Anonymity in Eighteenth-Century Italian Publishing: The Absent Author

by Lodovica Braida

Book Overview

This book focuses on the different forms in which authorship came to be expressed in eighteenth-century Italian publishing. It analyses both the affirmation of the "author function", and, above all, its paradoxical opposite: the use of anonymity, a centuries-old practice present everywhere in Europe but often neglected by scholarship. The reasons why authors chose to publish their works anonymously were manifold, including prudence, fear of censorship,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031039009
• ISBN13: 9783031039003
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"