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

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

Gavin Jones

299 pages paperback

1 edition

nonfiction classics literary challenging reflective medium-paced
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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 ...

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