A01=Paula Blank
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Author_Paula Blank
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Babelish Confusion
bellay
Broken English
Captain Macmorris
carew
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Category=DSB
Common Language
cultural identity formation
Della
dialect construction in renaissance literature
diction
Du Bellay
Earliest English Grammarians
Early Modern English
early modern linguistics
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gill
Gypsies Metamorphosed
king's
King's English
King’s English
language standardisation
Lenten Stuffe
literary language history
Moll Cutpurse
Northern Dialect
Northern English
Northern Lass
poetic
renaissance
Renaissance Authors
Renaissance English Literature
richard
Shepheardes Calender
sociolinguistics
Southern English
Spelling Reformers
Spenser's Archaisms
Spenser's Diction
Spenser's Language
Spenser’s Archaisms
Spenser’s Diction
Spenser’s Language
Usuall Speach
vernacular variation
Waters Fall
Product details
- ISBN 9780415756846
- Weight: 410g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Apr 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The English language in the Renaissance was in many ways a collection of competing Englishes. Paula Blank investigates the representation of alternative vernaculars - the dialects of early modern English - in both linguistic and literary works of the period. Blank argues that Renaissance authors such as Spenser, Shakespeare and Jonson helped to construct the idea of a national language, variously known as 'true' English or 'pure' English or the 'King's English', by distinguishing its dialects - and sometimes by creating those dialects themselves. Broken English reveals how the Renaissance 'invention' of dialect forged modern alliances of language and cultural authority. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Renaissance studies and Renaissance English literature. It will also make fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in the history of English language.
