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Outlaw rhetoric : figuring vernacular eloquence in Shakespeare's England /

Title
Outlaw rhetoric : 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
xiii, 249 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 9780801449659 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0801449650 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2011027248
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library