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978-1-61147-469-5 • Hardback • March 2012 • $128.00 • (£98.00)
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Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin is professor of early modern English literature at the University of Montpellier III-Paul Valéry and head of the IRCL, “Institut de Recherche sur la Renaissance, l’âge Classique et les Lumières” (UMR 5186, research center of the French National Center for Scientific Research, CNRS).
Acknowledgments
Table of illustrations
Table of abbreviations
INTRODUCTION
Editorial note
Jean de MARCONVILLE,
A Treatise of the Good and Evell Tounge. ca. 1592
A note on the text
The text
William PERKINS,
A Direction for the Government of the Tongue according to Gods worde. 1595[1593]
A note on the text
The text
George WEBBE,
The Araignement of an unruly Tongue. 1619.
A note on the text
The text
Appendices
Appendix A: Marconville’s Treatise in French
Appendix B: Additions to Perkins’ 1593 text
Appendix C: Outline of Perkins’ treatise
Appendix D: Outline of Webbe’s treatise
Appendix E: Tongue Stories: some variations
Appendix F: Images of the tongue
Works cited
Vienne-Guerrin provides a deft overview of the scholarship on the tongue over the past twenty-five years. She traces the biblical and classical sources that the authors reference while presenting a brief overview of the anatomy of the tongue and the relationship between the tongue and heart....One of the most useful features of the book is the collection of striking images relating to the tongue that Vienne-Guerrin has collected in the appendix...Vienne-Guerrin's edition effectively situates the representation of the tongue in the noisy world of the early modern England.
— Renaissance Quarterly