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Description of  The Inarticulate Renaissance: Language Trouble in an Age of Eloquence (Winner of the 2010 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize for Literature)

Awarded the 2010 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference The Inarticulate Renaissance explores the conceptual potential of the disabled utterance in the English literary Renaissance. What might it have meant, in the sixteenth-century "age of eloquence," to speak indistinctly to mumble to oneself or to God to speak unintelligibly to a lover, a teacher, a court of law or to be utterly dumfounded in the face of new words, persons, situations, and things? This innovative book maps out a "Renaissance" otherwise eclipsed by cultural and literary-critical investments in a period defined by the impact of classical humanism, Reformation poetics, and the flourishing of vernacular languages and literatures. Read more