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Authorizing Words : Speech, Writing, and Print in the English Renaissance.

Elsky, Martin.

Authorizing Words : Speech, Writing, and Print in the English Renaissance. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (247 pages)

Cover -- Authorizing Words -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Scholastic Logic and Grammar: The Inescapability of Speech -- 2 The Humanists: The Primacy of Speech -- 3 Elyot, Ascham, Jonson, and the Frailty of Speech -- 4 Space and Textuality: Writing and Speech in the Idea of the Text -- 5 The Space of the Hieroglyph: George Herbert and Francis Bacon -- 6 Print and Manuscript: Bacon's Early Career and the Occasions of Writing -- 7 The Authority of Democritus Junior -- Index.

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9781501745744


English language-Early modern, 1500-1700-History.


Electronic books.

PE1081 .E475 1989

420/.9/031

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