Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. Antisocial Orpheus 1
4. Chapter 1. Good Space and Time: Humanist Pedagogy and the Uses of Estrangement 19
5. Chapter 2. The Commonplace and the Far-Fetched: Mapping Eloquence in the English Art of Rhetoric 45
6. Chapter 3. “A World to See”: Euphues’s Wayward Style 72
7. Chapter 4. Pastoral in Exile: Colin Clout and the Poetics of English Alienation 100
8. Chapter 5. “Conquering Feet”: Tamburlaine and the Measure of English 124
9. Coda. Eccentric Shakespeare 164
10. Notes 173
11. Index 207
12. Acknowledgments 217