Outlaw rhetoric
Subtitle: figuring vernacular eloquence in Shakespeare's England
By: Jenny C. Mann
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801449659
Subjects: Rhetoric; English literature; Eloquence in literature; Figures of speech in literature; National characteristics, English, in literature; History and criticism; English language; Early works to 1800; Handbooks, manuals; Renaissance Rhetoric
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a tale of Robin Hood; title: Common rhetoric : planting figures of speech in the English shire; title: The trespasser : displacing Virgilian figures in Spenser's Faerie queene; title: The insertour : putting the parenthesis in Sidney's Arcadia; title: The changeling : mingling heroes and hobgoblins in Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream; title: The figure of exchange : gender exchange in Shakespeare's Sonnet 20 and Jonson's Epicoene; title: The mingle-mangle : the hodgepodge of fancy and philosophy in Cavendish's Blazing world; title: Conclusion : "words made visible" and the turn against rhetoric; title: Appendix of English rhetorical manuals.