Outlaw rhetoric figuring vernacular eloquence in Shakespeare's England

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

Author/creator	Mann, Jenny C. (Jenny Caroline), 1978-
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Ithaca : Cornell University Press,
Description	xiii, 249 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	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.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2011027248
ISBN	9780801449659 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0801449650 (cloth : alk. paper)

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