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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783051103321

Autore

Palmer Patricia <1957->

Titolo

Language and conquest in early modern Ireland : English Renaissance literature and Elizabethan imperial expansion / / Patricia Palmer [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-107-12215-5

1-280-16220-1

0-511-11914-3

0-511-04725-8

0-511-15420-8

0-511-30361-0

0-511-48385-6

0-511-04129-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 254 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

820.9/9417/09031

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

English language - Political aspects - Ireland

British - Ireland - History - 16th century

Irish language - Political aspects - Ireland

English language - Ireland

Language policy - Ireland

Imperialism in literature

Renaissance - England

Ireland Foreign public opinion, English History 16th century

Ireland History 1558-1603 Historiography

Ireland History To 1603 Historiography

Ireland In literature

Ireland Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-246) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1.



Conquest, colonial ideologies and the consequences for language -- 2. 'A bad dream with no sound' : the representation of Irish in the texts of the Elizabethan conquest -- 3. 'Wilde speech' : Elizabethan evaluations of Irish -- 4. 'Translating this kingdom of the new' : English linguistic nationalism and Anglicisation policy in Ireland -- 5. New world, new incomprehension : patterns of change and continuity in the English encounter with native languages from Munster to Manoa -- 6. The clamorous silence -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The Elizabethan conquest of Ireland sparked off two linguistic events of enduring importance: it initiated the language shift from Irish to English, which constitutes the great drama of Irish cultural history, and it marked the beginnings of English linguistic expansion. The Elizabethan colonisers in Ireland included some of the leading poets and translators of the day. In Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland, Patricia Palmer uses their writings, as well as material from the State Papers, to explore the part that language played in shaping colonial ideology and English national identity. Palmer shows how manoeuvres of linguistic expansion rehearsed in Ireland shaped Englishmen's encounters with the languages of the New World, and frames that analysis within a comparison between English linguistic colonisation and Spanish practice in the New World. This is an ambitious, comparative study, which will interest literary and political historians.