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- catalog abstract ""This study examines the complex role of language as an instrument of empire in eighteenth-century British writing. Focusing in particular on the relationship between England and Scotland and strategies of national and imperial consolidation, Janet Sorensen explores the tensions which arose during a period when the formation of a national standard English coincided with the need to negotiate ever widening imperial linguistic contacts. Close readings of poems, novels, dictionaries, grammars and records of colonial English instruction reveal the deeply conflicting relationship between British national and imperial ideologies. Moving from Scots Gaelic poet Alexander MacDonald to writers such as Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, and Tobias Smollett, Sorensen analyses British linguistic practices of imperial domination, including the enforcement of English language usage. The book also engages with the work of Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen to offer a wider understanding of the ambivalent nature of English linguistic identities."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11713953.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Colonies History 18th century.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""This study examines the complex role of language as an instrument of empire in eighteenth-century British writing. Focusing in particular on the relationship between England and Scotland and strategies of national and imperial consolidation, Janet Sorensen explores the tensions which arose during a period when the formation of a national standard English coincided with the need to negotiate ever widening imperial linguistic contacts. Close readings of poems, novels, dictionaries, grammars and records of colonial English instruction reveal the deeply conflicting relationship between British national and imperial ideologies.".
- catalog description "1. Scripting identity? English language and literacy instruction in the Highlands and the strange case of Alexander MacDonald -- 2. "A grammarian's regard to the genius of our tongue": Johnson's Dictionary, imperial grammar, and the customary national language -- 3. Women, Celts, and hollow voices: Tobias Smollett's brokering of Anglo-British linguistic identities -- 4. The figure of the nation: polite language and its originary other in Adam Smith's and Hugh Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres -- 5. "A Translator without Originals": William Shaw's Scots Gaelic and the dialectic of (linguistic) empire -- Epilogue. Jane Austen's language and the strangeness at home in the center.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-302) and index.".
- catalog description "Moving from Scots Gaelic poet Alexander MacDonald to writers such as Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, and Tobias Smollett, Sorensen analyses British linguistic practices of imperial domination, including the enforcement of English language usage. The book also engages with the work of Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen to offer a wider understanding of the ambivalent nature of English linguistic identities."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "x, 318 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521653274".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Colonies History 18th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Colonies.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "820.9/358 21".
- catalog subject "Colonies in literature.".
- catalog subject "English language 18th century Rhetoric.".
- catalog subject "English language Great Britain Colonies.".
- catalog subject "English literature 18th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Imperialism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Literature and history Great Britain History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "PR448.I52 S65 2000".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature Great Britain History 18th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Scripting identity? English language and literacy instruction in the Highlands and the strange case of Alexander MacDonald -- 2. "A grammarian's regard to the genius of our tongue": Johnson's Dictionary, imperial grammar, and the customary national language -- 3. Women, Celts, and hollow voices: Tobias Smollett's brokering of Anglo-British linguistic identities -- 4. The figure of the nation: polite language and its originary other in Adam Smith's and Hugh Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres -- 5. "A Translator without Originals": William Shaw's Scots Gaelic and the dialectic of (linguistic) empire -- Epilogue. Jane Austen's language and the strangeness at home in the center.".
- catalog title "The grammar of empire in eighteenth-century British writing / Janet Sorensen.".
- catalog type "text".