Literacy, Language and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Paperback / softback
Edited by Rebecca Anne Barr, Sarah-Anne Buckley, Muireann O’Cinneide
Part of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland series
Paperback / softback
Description
This volume of essays explores the multiple forms and functions of reading and writing in nineteenth-century Ireland.
This century saw a dramatic transition in literacy levels and in the education and language practices of the Irish population, yet the processes and full significance of these transitions remains critically under explored.
This book traces how understandings of literacy and language shaped national and transnational discourses of cultural identity, and the different reading communities produced by questions of language, religion, status, education and audience.
Essays are gathered under four main areas of analysis: Literacy and Bilingualism; Periodicals and their readers; Translation, transmission and transnational literacies; Visual literacies.
Through these sections, the authors offer a range of understandings of the ways in which Irish readers and writers interpreted and communicated their worlds.
List of contributors: Rebecca Anne Barr, Sarah-Anne Buckley, Muireann O’Cinneide, Niall Ó Ciosáin, Máire Nic an Bhaird, Liam Mac Mathúna, James Quinn, Nicola Morris, Elizabeth Tilley, Darragh Gannon, Florry O’Driscoll, Michèle Milan, Nessa Cronin and Stephanie Rains.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages, Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:01/02/2022
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- ISBN:9781800854727
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages, Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:01/02/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781800854727
