Pretexts of Authority: The Rhetoric of Authorship in the Renaissance Preface

Author/Contributor(s):	Dunn, Kevin
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	05/01/1994
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Dunn describes the Renaissance rhetoric of authorship and authority by examining the locus where it appears in its most concentrated form-the preface. He shows how the notion of authorship changed in the shifts to the modern public sphere and from religion to science as legitimizing authorship.