Authorship and Audience Literary Performance in the American Renaissance |
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Author:
| Railton, Stephen |
Series title: | Princeton Legacy Library |
ISBN: | 978-0-691-63110-3 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2016 |
Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $104.00 |
Book Description:
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Stephen Railton's study of the American Renaissance proposes a fresh way of conceiving the writer as a performing artist and the text as an enactment of the drama of its own performance. Railton focuses on how major prose works of the period are preoccupied with their readers--how they seek to negotiate the conflicted space between the authors, who
Stephen Railton's study of the American Renaissance proposes a fresh way of conceiving the writer as a performing artist and the text as an enactment of the drama of its own performance. Railton focuses on how major prose works of the period are preoccupied with their readers--how they seek to negotiate the conflicted space between the authors, who