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Language and conquest in early modern Ireland : English Renaissance literature and Elizabethan imperial expansion

Author: Patricia Palmer
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Patricia Palmer
ISBN: 0521793181 9780521793186
OCLC Number: 46359510
Description: xii, 254 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: Patricia Palmer.
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