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Language, race, and social class in Howells's America / Elsa Nettels.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nettels, Elsa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Speech and social status--United States.
- Speech and social status.
- Language and languages in literature.
- English language--United States.
- English language.
- Social classes in literature.
- Americanisms in literature.
- Race in literature.
- Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920--Knowledge--America.
- Howells, William Dean.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1988.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8131-6029-4
- 0-8131-3021-2
- 0-8131-6131-2
- OCLC:
- 900344931
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