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Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia, 1840–1940
Joy Damousi
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Description for Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia, 1840–1940
hardcover. Innovative study of the role of language in the 'civilising' project of the British Empire in colonial Australia. Series: Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories. Num Pages: 326 pages, 21 b/w illus. BIC Classification: CFB; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 660.
Colonial Voices explores the role of language in the greater 'civilising' project of the British Empire through the dissemination and reception of, and challenge to, British English in Australia during the period from the 1840s to the 1940s. This was a period in which the art of oratory, eloquence and elocution was of great importance in the empire and Joy Damousi offers an innovative study of the relationship between language and empire. She shows the ways in which this relationship moved from dependency to independence and how, during that transition, definitions of the meaning and place of oratory, eloquence and ... Read more
Colonial Voices explores the role of language in the greater 'civilising' project of the British Empire through the dissemination and reception of, and challenge to, British English in Australia during the period from the 1840s to the 1940s. This was a period in which the art of oratory, eloquence and elocution was of great importance in the empire and Joy Damousi offers an innovative study of the relationship between language and empire. She shows the ways in which this relationship moved from dependency to independence and how, during that transition, definitions of the meaning and place of oratory, eloquence and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
Number of Pages
326
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521516310
SKU
V9780521516310
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About Joy Damousi
Professor Joy Damousi is Head of the School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne. Her previous publications include Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia (1990), The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia (1999), Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-War Australia (2001) and Freud in the Antipodes: A ... Read more
Reviews for Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia, 1840–1940
'In this book Joy Damousi shows that imagination has ears. She sketches a great ant-nest of sound, the sound of Australian voices in the past, and shows how they were regulated and reformed, restricted and empowered. This is a path-breaking book, brilliantly researched and beautifully written. Joy Damousi shows that the Australian sense of self is much more complicated than ... Read more