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Book SynopsisDaniel 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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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 *
"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 *
Table of ContentsIntroduction. Multiplicity and Relation: Toward an Anglophone Eighteenth Century
Multilingual Lives: Peros, Jack, Neptune, and Cupid
Chapter 1. The Multilingualism of the Other: Politics, Counterpolitics, Anglophony, and Beyond
Multilingual Lives: Reverend Lyons
Chapter 2. De Copia: Language, Politics, and Aesthetics
Multilingual Lives: Dorothy Pentreath and William Bodener
Chapter 3. De Libertate: Anglophony and the Idea of "Free" Translation
Multilingual Lives: Joseph Emin
Chapter 4. Literacy Fictions: Making Linguistic Difference Legible
Multilingual Lives: Antera Duke
Chapter 5. The "Alien Wealth" of "Lucky Contaminations": Freedom, Labor, and Translation
Multilingual Lives: Sequoyah
Conclusion. Anglophone Futures: Globalization and Divination, Language and the Humanities
Appendix A. Selected "Dialect" Prose
Appendix B. Selected "Dialect" Poetry
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments
