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Strange Talk

Name: Strange Talk
Brand: University of California Press
SKU: 9780520214217
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The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America

Автор: Gavin Jones

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: University of California Press

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Late-nineteenth-century America was crazy about dialect: vernacular varieties of American English en...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Gavin Jones

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1999

страници

299

EAN

9780520214217

ISBN

0520214218

Enbook ID

04616369

Издател

University of California Press

Теглоt

454

Размери

152 x 229 x 18

Пълно описание

Late-nineteenth-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. But dialect was also at the heart of anxious debates about the moral degeneration of urban life, the ethnic impact of foreign immigration, the black presence in white society, and the female influence on masculine authority. Celebrations of the rustic raciness in American vernacular were undercut by fears that dialect was a force of cultural dissolution with the power to contaminate the dominant language. In this volume, Gavin Jones explores the aesthetic politics of this neglected "cult of the vernacular" in little-known regionalists such as George Washington Cable, in the canonical work of Mark Twain, Henry James, Herman Melville, and Stephen Crane, and in the ethnic writing of Abraham Cahan and Paul Laurence Dunbar. He reveals the origins of a trend that deepened in subsequent literature: the use of minority dialect to formulate a political response to racial oppression, and to enrich diverse depictions of a multicultural nation.