Catherine Nicholson: 1 book
Uncommon Tongues
Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
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—but...
