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Autore |
Nettels Elsa |
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Language, race, and social class in Howells's America / / Elsa Nettels |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1988 |
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©1988 |
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0-8131-3021-2 |
0-8131-6131-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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National characteristics, American, in literature |
Speech and social status - United States |
Language and languages in literature |
English language - United States |
Social classes in literature |
Americanisms in literature |
Race in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; One. Language in Howells's America; Two. ""Good Natural English""; Three. American and British English; Four. Realism and Dialect; Five. The Problem of ""Negro Dialect"" in Literature; Six. Language, Race, and Nationality in Howells's Fiction; Seven. Language and Class in the Early Novels; Eight. Language and Class in Novels of Country and City; Nine. Language and Complicity in The Minister's Charge; Ten. Language and Equality in the Late Novels; Conclusion; Notes; Works of William Dean Howells; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K |
LM; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
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No other American novelist has written so fully about language -- grammar, diction, the place of colloquialism and dialect in literary English, the relation between speech and writing -- as William Dean Howells. The power of language to create social, political, and racial identity was of central concern to Americans in the nineteenth century, |
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and the implications of language in this regard are strikingly revealed in the writings of Howells, the most influential critic and editor of his age.In this first full-scale treatment of Howells as a writer about language, Elsa Nettels offers a historic |
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