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

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

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