LEADER 05060nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910807076003321 005 20240416114118.0 010 $a0-8014-6457-9 010 $a0-8014-6410-2 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801464102 035 $a(CKB)2670000000186546 035 $a(OCoLC)781542958 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10533656 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000612465 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11380387 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000612465 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10571974 035 $a(PQKB)11131607 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001496008 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138294 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28850 035 $a(DE-B1597)478419 035 $a(OCoLC)979577278 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801464102 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138294 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10533656 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681815 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000186546 100 $a20110624d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOutlaw rhetoric $efiguring vernacular eloquence in Shakespeare's England /$fJenny C. Mann 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIthaca, N.Y. $cCornell University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (266 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50533-0 311 $a0-8014-4965-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: A Tale of Robin Hood -- $t1. Common Rhetoric: Planting Figures of Speech in the English Shire -- $t2. The Trespasser: Displacing Virgilian Figures in Spenser's Faerie Queene -- $t3. The Insertour: Putting the Parenthesis in Sidney's Arcadia -- $t4. The Changeling: Mingling Heroes and Hobgoblins in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream -- $t5. The Figure of Exchange: Gender Exchange in Shakespeare's Sonnet 20 and Jonson's Epicene -- $t6. The Mingle-Mangle: The Hodgepodge of Fancy and Philosophy in Cavendish's Blazing World -- $tConclusion "Words Made Visible" and the Turn against Rhetoric -- $tAppendix of English Rhetorical Manuals -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aA central feature of English Renaissance humanism was its reverence for classical Latin as the one true form of eloquent expression. Yet sixteenth-century writers increasingly came to believe that England needed an equally distinguished vernacular language to serve its burgeoning national community. Thus, one of the main cultural projects of Renaissance rhetoricians was that of producing a "common" vernacular eloquence, mindful of its classical origins yet self-consciously English in character. The process of vernacularization began during Henry VIII's reign and continued, with fits and starts, late into the seventeenth century. However, as Jenny C. Mann shows in Outlaw Rhetoric, this project was beset with problems and conflicts from the start.Outlaw Rhetoric examines the substantial and largely unexplored archive of vernacular rhetorical guides produced in England between 1500 and 1700. Writers of these guides drew on classical training as they translated Greek and Latin figures of speech into an everyday English that could serve the ends of literary and national invention. In the process, however, they confronted aspects of rhetoric that run counter to its civilizing impulse. For instance, Mann finds repeated references to Robin Hood, indicating an ongoing concern that vernacular rhetoric is "outlaw" to the classical tradition because it is common, popular, and ephemeral. As this book shows, however, such allusions hint at a growing acceptance of the nonclassical along with a new esteem for literary production that can be identified as native to England. Working across a range of genres, Mann demonstrates the effects of this tension between classical rhetoric and English outlawry in works by Spenser, Shakespeare, Sidney, Jonson, and Cavendish. In so doing she reveals the political stakes of the vernacular rhetorical project in the age of Shakespeare. 606 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEloquence in literature 606 $aFigures of speech in literature 606 $aNational characteristics, English, in literature 606 $aRhetoric, Renaissance$zEngland 606 $aEnglish language$xRhetoric$vHandbooks, manuals, etc$vEarly works to 1800 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEloquence in literature. 615 0$aFigures of speech in literature. 615 0$aNational characteristics, English, in literature. 615 0$aRhetoric, Renaissance 615 0$aEnglish language$xRhetoric 676 $a820.9/003 700 $aMann$b Jenny C$g(Jenny Caroline),$f1978-$01657929 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807076003321 996 $aOutlaw rhetoric$94011655 997 $aUNINA