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Overview
Recent literary scholarship has seen a shift of interest away from questions of attribution. This book is the first comprehensive literary survey of the field to appear in forty years. It revisits a number of famous controversies, including those concerning the authorship of the Homeric poems, books from the Old and New Testaments, and the plays of Shakespeare. Written with wit and erudition, the study makes this intriguing field accessible for students and scholars.
Synopsis
The present book is the first comprehensive survey of attribution from a literary perspective to appear for forty years.
Booknews
Revisiting some famous controversies over authorship (e.g., that of Shakespeare's plays) and lesser known ones, Love (Monash U.) surveys as equally valuable to the problem of literary (and gender) attribution the use of traditional internal and external sources of evidence and newer methods such as computer-searchable text databases and statistical studies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)