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Author:

Mann, Jenny C. (Jenny Caroline), 1978-

Title:

Outlaw rhetoric : figuring vernacular eloquence in Shakespeare's England / Jenny C. Mann.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xiii, 249 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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--Early works to 1800.--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800.

Notes:

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:

0801449650 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801449659 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)739914711

LCCN:

2011027248

Locations:

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

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)