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Author:

Mazzio, Carla, 1965-

Title:

The inarticulate Renaissance : language trouble in an age of eloquence / Carla Mazzio.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

vi, 349 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Eloquence in literature.
English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--History.
Speech and social status--England--History--16th century.
Speech and social status--England--History--17th century.
Speech in literature.
Silence in literature.
Rhetoric, Renaissance.
Speech, Intelligibility of.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-330) and index.

Contents:

The Renaissance of mumbling: Latinity, reformation polemic, and the mother tongue -- From fault to figure: the case of Madge Mumblecrust in Ralph Roister Doister -- Disarticulating community: nation, law, history, and The Spanish tragedy -- Acting in the passive voice: Love's labour's lost and the melancholy of print -- Feeling inarticulate: on communal vulnerability and the sense of touch in Lingua and Hamlet.

ISBN:

081224138X (acid-free paper)
9780812241389 (acid-free paper)

LCCN:

2008032141

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)