Mann, Jenny C.  1978- <br/><br/>
Outlaw rhetoric :  figuring vernacular eloquence in Shakespeare's England / 
Jenny C. Mann. 
 - Ithaca :  Cornell University Press,  (c)2012. 
 - 1 online resource :  illustrations 
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<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Using English Renaissance rhetoric manuals in conjunction with the literary texts informed by them, Jenny C. Mann argues that one of the main cultural projects of the English Renaissance, namely its desire to elevate the English language and place it on a level with Latin and Greek, was beset with problems and conflicts from the start. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780801464577 9780801464102 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2019724530 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Eloquence in literature.<br/>Figures of speech in literature.<br/>National characteristics, English, in literature.<br/>Rhetoric, Renaissance--England.<br/>English language--Rhetoric--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--Early works to 1800.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR418  / .O985 2012