Outlaw Rhetoric : : Figuring Vernacular Eloquence in Shakespeare's England /

Outlaw Rhetoric : : Figuring Vernacular Eloquence in Shakespeare's England / / Jenny C. Mann.

Show other versions (1)

A central feature of English Renaissance humanism was its reverence for classical Latin as the one true form of eloquent expression. Yet sixteenth-century writers increasingly came to believe that England needed an equally distinguished vernacular language to serve its burgeoning national community....

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Mann, Jenny C.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 6 halftones
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: A Tale of Robin Hood
  • 1. Common Rhetoric: Planting Figures of Speech in the English Shire
  • 2. The Trespasser: Displacing Virgilian Figures in Spenser's Faerie Queene
  • 3. The Insertour: Putting the Parenthesis in Sidney's Arcadia
  • 4. The Changeling: Mingling Heroes and Hobgoblins in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • 5. The Figure of Exchange: Gender Exchange in Shakespeare's Sonnet 20 and Jonson's Epicene
  • 6. The Mingle-Mangle: The Hodgepodge of Fancy and Philosophy in Cavendish's Blazing World
  • Conclusion "Words Made Visible" and the Turn against Rhetoric
  • Appendix of English Rhetorical Manuals
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Similar Items