Strange Talk : The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America
by
Gavin Jones
Book Details
Format
Paperback / softback
ISBN-10
0520214218
ISBN-13
9780520214217
Publisher
University of California Press
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University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 19th, 1999
Print length
299 Pages
Weight
454 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 1.80 cms
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Late-19th-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. This text explores the aesthetic politics of the "cult of vernacular", and reveals the origins of the trend.
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