Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… of the Lord Chesterfield Waiting for an Audience’, 1748, Tate, N00430. Résumé In the absence of fully developed markets, patronage (the relation between someone able to dispense something with social or economic value, such as money, … literature – could be realized. Generally speaking, the eighteenth century sees the gradual replacement of traditional patronage (a rich aristocrat or churchman being a patron to an artist) with more market-oriented models that distributed … both financial and cultural investments and rewards more broadly. This entry will concentrate mainly on literary patronage as the type in which these changes manifested most strongly, and where they were most directly reflected upon …
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