Daniel Dewispelare

Multilingual Subjects

On Standard English, Its Speakers, and Others in the Long Eighteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Daniel DeWispelare is Associate Professor of English at George Washington University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780812249095
• ISBN-10: 0812249097
• Artikelnr.: 46596637

Autorenporträt

Daniel DeWispelare is Associate Professor of English at George Washington University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Multiplicity and Relation: Toward an Anglophone Eighteenth
Century
Multilingual Lives: Peros, Jack, Neptune, and Cupid
Chapter 1. The Multilingualism of the Other: Politics, Counterpolitics,
Anglophony, and Beyond
Multilingual Lives: Reverend Lyons
Chapter 2. De Copia: Language, Politics, and Aesthetics
Multilingual Lives: Dorothy Pentreath and William Bodener
Chapter 3. De Libertate: Anglophony and the Idea of "Free" Translation
Multilingual Lives: Joseph Emin
Chapter 4. Literacy Fictions: Making Linguistic Difference Legible
Multilingual Lives: Antera Duke
Chapter 5. The "Alien Wealth" of "Lucky Contaminations": Freedom, Labor,
and Translation
Multilingual Lives: Sequoyah
Conclusion. Anglophone Futures: Globalization and Divination, Language and
the Humanities
Appendix A. Selected "Dialect" Prose
Appendix B. Selected "Dialect" Poetry
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments