Uncommon Tongues : : Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance / / Catherine Nicholson.
In the late sixteenth century, as England began to assert its integrity as a nation and English its merit as a literate tongue, vernacular writing took a turn for the eccentric. Authors such as John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, and Christopher Marlowe loudly announced their ambitions for the mother tongue-...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. Antisocial Orpheus
- Chapter 1. Good Space and Time: Humanist Pedagogy and the Uses of Estrangement
- Chapter 2. The Commonplace and the Far-Fetched: Mapping Eloquence in the English Art of Rhetoric
- Chapter 3. "A World to See": Euphues's Wayward Style
- Chapter 4. Pastoral in Exile: Colin Clout and the Poetics of English Alienation
- Chapter 5. "Conquering Feet": Tamburlaine and the Measure of English
- Coda. Eccentric Shakespeare
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments