Uncommon Tongues : Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance /
Uncommon Tongues explores the tension between the political value of eloquence and its classical definition in sixteenth-century English literature, locating eccentricity and unfamiliarity at the heart of pedagogical, rhetorical, and literary culture
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. Antisocial Orpheus
- Chapter 1. Good Space and Time: Humanist Pedagogy and the Uses of Estrangement
- Chapter 2. The Commonplace and the Far-Fetched: Mapping Eloquence in the English Art of Rhetoric
- Chapter 3. "A World to See": Euphues's Wayward Style
- Chapter 4. Pastoral in Exile: Colin Clout and the Poetics of English Alienation
- Chapter 5. "Conquering Feet": Tamburlaine and the Measure of English
- Coda. Eccentric Shakespeare
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments