The literary universe as we know it today took shape in the nineteenth century as a space set apart from the approved academies of the state. No one could any longer dictate what ought to be written or decree the canons of good taste. Recognition and consecration were produced in and through the struggle in which writers, critics, and publishers confronted one another.
Table of Contents Translator's Preface Preface Acknowledgements Prologue: Flaubert, Analyst of Flaubert: A Reading of Sentimental Education 1 Pt. I Three States of the Field 1 The Conquest of Autonomy: The Critical Phase in the Emergence of the Field 47 2 The Emergence of a Dualist Structure 113 3 The Market for Symbolic Goods 141 Pt. II Foundations of a Science of Works of Art 1 Questions of Method 177 2 The Author's Point of View: Some General Properties of Fields of Cultural Production 214 Pt. III To Understand Understanding 1 The Historical Genesis of the Pure Aesthetic 285 2 The Social Genesis of the Eye 313 3 A Theory of Reading in Practice 322 Da Capo: Illusion and the Illusio 331 Postscript: For a Corporatism of the Universal 337 Notes 349 Index of Names 397 Subject Index 404
