Strange talk : the politics of dialect literature in Gilded Age America / Gavin Jones.
1999
PS217.D53 J66 1999 (Mapit)
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Strange talk : the politics of dialect literature in Gilded Age America / Gavin Jones.
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9780520214217 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520214218 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520214194 (alk. paper)
0520214196 (alk. paper)
0520214218 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520214194 (alk. paper)
0520214196 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999.
Language
English
Description
xi, 288 p. ; 23 cm.
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PS217.D53 J66 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.9/358
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.