TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mann,Jenny C.
TI  - Outlaw rhetoric: figuring vernacular eloquence in Shakespeare's England 
SN  - 9780801464577
AV  - PR418 .O985 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Eloquence in literature
KW  - Figures of speech in literature
KW  - National characteristics, English, in literature
KW  - Rhetoric, Renaissance
KW  - England
KW  - English language
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Handbooks, manuals, etc
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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