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Authorship and Audience: Literary Performance in the American Renaissance
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Full Title:
Authorship and Audience: Literary Performance in the American Renaissance
Contributors:
By (Author) Stephen Railton
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Literary studies: general
Dewey:
810.9003
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
252
Dimensions:
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
Weight:
425g
Description
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
