Strange Talk: The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America - Gavin Jones - Books - University of California Press - 9780520214217 - October 19, 1999
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Gavin Jones
Strange Talk: 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.

299 pages

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Released October 19, 1999
ISBN13 9780520214217
Publishers University of California Press
Pages 299
Dimensions 151 × 229 × 22 mm   ·   458 g

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