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Loading... Language, race, and social class in Howells's Americaby Elsa Nettels
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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, 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 No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)818.409Literature English (North America) Authors, American and American miscellany Later 19th Century 1861-1900LC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |