Strange Talk

The Politics Of Dialect Literature In Gilded Age America

by Gavin Jones
language: english
Publisher: University of California Press, October of 1999 ‧
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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.

Strange Talk

The Politics Of Dialect Literature In Gilded Age America

by Gavin Jones

Property Description
ISBN: 9780520214217
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date: October of 1999
Language: English
Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 299
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Linguistics and Philology
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780520214217