Dying to be Read: Gallows Authorship in Late Seventeenth-Century England
In her essay “Dying to be Read”, Margaret Ezell’s explores a media configuration of authorship that literally necessitates the “death of the author” as a condition sine qua non: the printed “dying words” of executed men and women in the Restoration period. The essay examines this type of “gallows l...
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Ghent University
2014-03-01
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| Series: | Authorship |
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| Online Access: | https://www.authorship.ugent.be/article/view/1068 |