Literacy, Language and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Rebecca Barr, Sarah-Anne Buckley, and Muireann O'Cinneide
Abstract
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 gathe ... More
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.
Keywords:
literacy,
nineteenth-century Ireland,
bilingualism,
translation,
periodicals,
transnational
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781786942081 |
| Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: January 2020 |
DOI:10.3828/liverpool/9781786942081.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Rebecca Barr, editor
Sarah-Anne Buckley, editor
Muireann O'Cinneide, editor
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