Uncommon tongues : eloquence and eccentricity in the English Renaissance /
In the late sixteenth century, as England began to assert its integrity as a nation and English its merit as a literate tongue, vernacular writing took a turn for the eccentric. Authors such as John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, and Christopher Marlowe loudly announced their ambitions for the mother tongue-...
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Philadelphia :
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2014
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
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