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Language, Race, and Social Class in Howells's America

Language, Race, and Social Class in Howells's America( )
Author: Nettels, Elsa
ISBN:978-1-322-60039-0
Publication Date:Jan 2015
Publisher:University Press of Kentucky
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $35.00
Book Description:

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...
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