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Language, race, and social class in Howells's America / / Elsa Nettels



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Autore: Nettels Elsa Visualizza persona
Titolo: Language, race, and social class in Howells's America / / Elsa Nettels Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1988
©1988
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
Disciplina: 818/.409
Soggetto topico: 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
Note generali: Includes index.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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, 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
Titolo autorizzato: Language, race, and social class in Howells's America  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8131-3021-2
0-8131-6131-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910787467903321
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