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More on the artist-intermediary tension

  • Writer: Kevin Armor Harris
    Kevin Armor Harris
  • Jan 31
  • 1 min read

Updated: Feb 15



Jane Austen writing desk

Further to my thoughts on the potential or real influence of intermediaries on an artist’s work…


According to Tom Keymer (2020), we might never have heard of Jane Austen, her novels never published at all, “had she not met the market halfway” (Jane Austen: writing, society, politics).


I find this a little disturbing (although I'd want a bit more specificity around the term 'halfway'). It seems to suggest that Austen's exquisite precision of language was shaped to a significant degree by market forces. Really?

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