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 | #3172794 in Books |  2013-11-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x6.25 x.75l,1.20 | File type: PDF | 224 pages

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|| ||"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 ve

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 the extremity of their stylistic innovations yielded texts that seemed hardly English at all. Critics likened Lyly's hyperembellished prose to a bejeweled "Indian...

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