Strange Talk: The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America

by Gavin Jones

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Late-nineteenth-century America was crazy about dialect: vernacular varieties of American English entertained mass audiences in "local color" stories, in realist novels, and in poems and plays. But dialect was also at the heart of anxious debates about the moral degeneration of urban life, the ethnic impact of foreign immigration, the black presence in white society, and the female influence on masculine authority. Celebrations of the rustic raciness...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520214218

ISBN13:9780520214217

Release Date:October 1999

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:299 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

American Literature Classics Criticism & Theory Education & Reference History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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