{"product_id":"uncommon-tongues-9780812245585","title":"Uncommon Tongues","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUncommon 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nicholson complicates the triumphalist visions of earlier scholarship with a nuanced account of how England negotiated the marginality of its own status vis-à-vis the classical tradition, and the strangeness of eloquence per se, as a defamiliarized version of the language.\" * \u003ci\u003eRecent Studies in the English Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Nicholson uniquely observes that contrary to what is commonly thought, the sixteenth-century writers purposefully sought linguistic eccentricity as a response against an ideal, traditional form of eloquence.\" * \u003ci\u003eSixteenth Century Journal\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"An excellent discussion of ideas about style among English Renaissance writers, noteworthy for its remarkable lucidity and eloquence.\" * Paula Blank, College of William and Mary *\u003cbr\u003e\"An illuminating study. \u003ci\u003eUncommon Tongues\u003c\/i\u003e opens up a very different understanding of the category and the lineaments of English eloquence. Nicholson is a very observant, ingenious, and persuasive literary critic.\" * Jeff Dolven, Princeton University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Antisocial Orpheus\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Good Space and Time: Humanist Pedagogy and the Uses of Estrangement\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Commonplace and the Far-Fetched: Mapping Eloquence in the English Art of Rhetoric\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. \"A World to See\": Euphues's Wayward Style\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Pastoral in Exile: Colin Clout and the Poetics of English Alienation\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. \"Conquering Feet\": Tamburlaine and the Measure of English\u003cbr\u003e Coda: Eccentric Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405722820951,"sku":"9780812245585","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812245585.jpg?v=1730493393","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/uncommon-tongues-9780812245585","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}