TY - BOOK AU - Nicholson,Catherine TI - Uncommon Tongues: Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance SN - 9780812208801 AV - PR418.E45 -- N53 2014eb U1 - 820.9/003 PY - 2013/// CY - Philadelphia PB - University of Pennsylvania Press KW - Lyly, John,-1554?-1606.-Euphues KW - Spenser, Edmund,-1552?-1599.-Shepherd's calender KW - Marlowe, Christopher,-1564-1593.-Tamburlaine the Great KW - English literature-Early modern, 1500-1700-History and criticism KW - Eloquence in literature KW - English language-Early modern, 1500-1700-Style KW - English language-Early modern, 1500-1700-Rhetoric KW - National characteristics, English, in literature KW - Rhetoric, Renaissance-England KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Uncommon Tongues -- Title -- Copyright -- 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3442304 ER -