Multilingual Subjects : : On Standard English, Its Speakers, and Others in the Long Eighteenth Century / / Daniel DeWispelare.
In the eighteenth century, the British Empire pursued its commercial ambitions across the globe, greatly expanding its colonial presence and, with it, the reach of the English language. During this era, a standard form of English was taught in the British provinces just as it was increasingly export...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. Multiplicity and Relation
- Multilingual lives
- Chapter 1. The Multilingualism of the Other
- Multilingual lives
- Chapter 2. De Copia
- Multilingual lives
- Chapter 3. De Libertate
- Multilingual lives
- Chapter 4. Literacy Fictions
- Multilingual lives
- Chapter 5. The "Alien Wealth" of "Lucky Contaminations"
- Multilingual lives
- Conclusion. Anglophone Futures
- Appendix A. Selected "Dialect" Prose
- Appendix B. Selected "Dialect" Poetry
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Acknowledgments