Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland: English Renaissance Literature and Elizabethan Imperial Expansion

Type

Book

Authors

Patricia Palmer

ISBN 10

0521120330

ISBN 13

9780521120333

Tags

British & Irish, English Literature

Description

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. In Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland, Patricia Palmer explores the part which language played in shaping colonial ideology and English national identity. The book is an ambitious, comparative study which will interest literary and political historians. - from Amzon

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