Among the Yahoos: Edgeworth, the Irish Language, and the Letter from Connemara

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作者
Cogan, Lucy [1 ]
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[1] Univ Coll Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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EYWORDS; Romanticism; Irish literature; Irish language; Travel writing; Improvement;
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10.1353/srm.2024.a931778
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I [文学];
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05 ;
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Maria Edgeworth's attitude toward the Irish language is often characterized as either hostile or indifferent but the reality was more nuanced. Edgeworth deemed the language a remnant of Ireland's barbaric past and reacted to it as a symbolic threat to her hybridic identity. As her career progressed, however, she slowly made space for an Irish-language subjectivity within her construction of Irishness, if in a strictly subordinate position. Yet when Edgeworth traveled into the wilds of Connemara in 1833, a region where the language still dominated, she was confronted by an Irish-speaking population that resisted her efforts at cultural containment.
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