Strange talk : the politics of dialect literature in Gilded Age America / Gavin Jones.

Contaminated tongues: American philology and the problem of dialect
The cult of the vernacular
Language, gender, and disease
White writers, Creole languages
"Accents of menace alien to our air": language and literature in turn-of-the-century New York City
Vaudeville dialects
Paul Laurence Dunbar and the authentic black voice.