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ISBN/UID: 9780520214217
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 19 October 1999
Description
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 ...
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299 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780520214217
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 19 October 1999
Description
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 ...