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

Daniel DeWispelare

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2017

Multilingual Subjects

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

Daniel DeWispelare

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293999

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About this book

Daniel DeWispelare documents how many varieties of English became sidelined as "dialects" as Standard English became dominant throughout an ever-expanding English-speaking world, while asserting the importance of both multilingualism and dialect writing to eighteenth-century anglophone culture.

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Daniel DeWispelare teaches English at George Washington University.

Reviews

"The insights contained in Multilingual Subjects are timely and will reverberate through a number of fields—including linguistic and language studies, studies of alterity, slavery and identity, and Atlantic studies—that are not often made adjacent in such a dexterous way as Daniel DeWispelare does in this fascinating 'counter-archive of the anglophone.'"—James Mulholland, North Carolina State University

"Multilingual Subjects generates provocative conversations around recent and urgent questions regarding the profession of English, offering a much-needed genealogy to the present moment of global English."—Janet Sorensen, University of California, Berkeley

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction. Multiplicity and Relation Toward an Anglophone Eighteenth Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Multilingual lives Peros, Jack, Neptune, and Cupid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter 1. The Multilingualism of the Other Politics, Counterpolitics, Anglophony, and Beyond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Multilingual lives Reverend Lyons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Chapter 2. De Copia Language, Politics, and Aesthetics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Multilingual lives Dorothy Pentreath and William Bodener Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Chapter 3. De Libertate Anglophony and the Idea of “Free” Translation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Multilingual lives Joseph Emin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Chapter 4. Literacy Fictions Making Linguistic Difference Legible Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Multilingual lives Antera Duke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Chapter 5. The “Alien Wealth” of “Lucky Contaminations” Freedom, Labor, and Translation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Multilingual lives Sequoyah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Conclusion. Anglophone Futures Globalization and Divination, Language and the Humanities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Appendix A. Selected “Dialect” Prose Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Appendix B. Selected “Dialect” Poetry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 344
Illustrations
- Other: 8 illus.
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: April 4, 2017
ISBN: 9780812293999