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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 3 illus.
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