Pretexts of Authority

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ISBN: 9780804722841 | 0804722846
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/1/1994

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Dunn describes the Renaissance rhetoric of authorship and authority by examining the locus where it appears in its most concentrated formthe 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.

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Preface
Abbreviations
Prefatory Authority: Renaissance Authorship and the Extratextual	p. 1
"A member incorporate": Public and Private Rhetoric in the Protestant Preface	p. 19
In Search of a Public Idiom: Pauline Authority and Lutheran Authorship	p. 27
Humanist Individualism and the Puritan Polity in Milton's Antiprelatical Tracts	p. 51
Prefatory Method in the New Science	p. 79
"A great city is a great solitude": Descartes's Urban Pastoral	p. 83
An Induction into Nature's Inner Courts: Empire and Institution in Bacon's Prefatory Method	p. 102
From Instauration to Restoration: Hobbes, Sprat, Dryden, and the Politics of Common Sense	p. 124
The End of the Beginning: The Decline of the Renaissance Preface	p. 147
Notes	p. 157
Bibliography	p. 181
Index	p. 195
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