Young Agents: Jonge auteurs op de vroegmoderne boekenmarkt

Young Agents: the Young Author’s Role on the Dutch Republic’s Book Market１ In this article, we investigate the role of young authors on the upcoming and flourishing book market of the Dutch Republic (1550-1800), focusing in particular on their ‘agency’. By investigating the specific contribution of young authors to this market and by discriminating between roles of young adults and adults, we introduce a new approach to early modern authorship. Combining quantitative digital experiments and qualitative textual analyses, we seek to tease out the dynamic relationship between the young authors’ i... Mehr ...