Uncommon Tongues: Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance
ISBN: 9780812208801
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature;

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.


Catherine Nicholson teaches English at Yale University.
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