Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xii, 198 pages ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-193) and index. Contents: Prefatory authority : Renaissance authorship and the extratextual -- pt. 1. "A member incorporate " : public and private rhetoric in the Protestant preface -- In search of a public idiom : Pauline authority and Lutheran authorship -- Humanist individualism and the Puritan polity in Milton's antiprelatical tracts -- pt. 2. Prefatory method in the new science -- "A great city is a great solitude" : Descartes's urban pastoral -- An induction into nature's inner courts : empire and institution in Bacon's prefatory method -- From instauration to restoration : Hobbes, Sprat, Dryden, and the politics of common sense -- The end of the beginning : the decline of the Renaissance preface. Subjects: English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism Theory, etc.; English prose literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism; Prefaces History and criticism; Renaissance Great Britain; Authority in literature; Rhetoric, Renaissance; Authorship History. 1 Kg.

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Titel: Pretexts of authority : the rhetoric of authorship in the Renaissance preface / Kevin Dunn
Verlag: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press
Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0804722846
ISBN-13: 9780804722841
Einband: Hardcover
Auflage: First Edition.

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A Stanford University Press classic.

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Kevin Dunn is Associate Professor of English at Yale University.

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