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

By Elsa Nettels

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813116295
• ISBN13: 9780813116297
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"