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Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland - English Renaissance Literature and Elizabethan Imperial Expansion (Paperback)
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Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland - English Renaissance Literature and Elizabethan Imperial Expansion (Paperback)
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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.
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