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- The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America

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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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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780520214217
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 299
  • Udgivet:
  • 19. oktober 1999
  • Størrelse:
  • 152x229x18 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 454 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 28. november 2024

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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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