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Title Pretexts of Authority: The Rhetoric of Authorship in the Renaissance Preface
Author Kevin Dunn
Binding Hardback
Edition 1st Edition
Pages 216
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Stanford University Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Publication date 1994-05-01
ISBN 9780804722841 / 0804722846
Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.63 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.60 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: British
Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 93006279
Dewey Decimal Code 820.900

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Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 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 --… Read more

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