03477nam 2200733 450 991045985390332120200520144314.00-8131-3021-20-8131-6131-2(CKB)3710000000334394(EBL)1915595(SSID)ssj0001402348(PQKBManifestationID)12556558(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001402348(PQKBWorkID)11359657(PQKB)11759061(MiAaPQ)EBC1915595(OCoLC)900344931(MdBmJHUP)muse44622(Au-PeEL)EBL1915595(CaPaEBR)ebr11007450(CaONFJC)MIL691321(EXLCZ)99371000000033439420150131h19881988 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLanguage, race, and social class in Howells's America /Elsa NettelsLexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,1988.©19881 online resource (249 p.)Includes index.1-322-60039-2 0-8131-1629-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; KLM; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; ZNo 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, 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 historicNational characteristics, American, in literatureSpeech and social statusUnited StatesLanguage and languages in literatureEnglish languageUnited StatesSocial classes in literatureAmericanisms in literatureRace in literatureElectronic books.National characteristics, American, in literature.Speech and social statusLanguage and languages in literature.English languageSocial classes in literature.Americanisms in literature.Race in literature.818/.409Nettels Elsa1029734MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459853903321Language, race, and social class in Howells's America2446292UNINA