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Outlaw rhetoric figuring vernacular eloquence in Shakespeare's England

Title
Outlaw rhetoric [electronic resource] : figuring vernacular eloquence in Shakespeare's England / Jenny C. Mann.
Author
Mann, Jenny C. (Jenny Caroline), 1978-
Publication
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.

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Description
1 online resource (xiii, 249 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
Outlaw rhetoric (Online)
Alternative Title
Outlaw rhetoric (Online)
Subject
  • English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
  • Eloquence in literature
  • Figures of speech in literature
  • National characteristics, English, in literature
  • Rhetoric, Renaissance > England
  • English language > Rhetoric > Handbooks, manuals, etc. > Early works to 1800
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
Introduction : a tale of Robin Hood -- Common rhetoric : planting figures of speech in the English shire -- The trespasser : displacing Virgilian figures in Spenser's Faerie queene -- The insertour : putting the parenthesis in Sidney's Arcadia -- The changeling : mingling heroes and hobgoblins in Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream -- The figure of exchange : gender exchange in Shakespeare's Sonnet 20 and Jonson's Epicoene -- 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.
LCCN
2011027248
OCLC
ssj0000612465
Author
Mann, Jenny C. (Jenny Caroline), 1978-
Title
Outlaw rhetoric [electronic resource] : figuring vernacular eloquence in Shakespeare's England / Jenny C. Mann.
Imprint
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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