Dialect and Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780367882235 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 184 str.

Jane Hodson

Opis

In this collection, scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, including dialectology, literary linguistics, socio-linguistics, literary studies, and the history of the English language, have come together to examine the theory, context, and ideology of the use of dialect in the nineteenth century. Taken together, the essays offer an exciting ove

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Contents

1. Introduction
   Jane Hodson, University of Sheffield











2. Nineteenth-century Dialect Literature and the Enregisterment of Urban Vernaculars
   Joan Beal, University of Sheffield











3. "I expect that I prefer them horses considerable beyond the oxen": American English in British fiction 1800-1836
   Jane Hodson, University of Sheffield











4. "An' I 'oäps as 'e beänt booöklarn'd: but 'e dosn' not coom fro' the shere": Alfred Tennyson’s dialect poetry and insider/outsider readers and writers
   Gunnel Melchers, Stockholm University











5. The textual history of Josiah Relph’s Cumberland poems: inventing dialect literature in the long nineteenth century
   Alex Broadhead, University of Liverpool











6. Dialect Poetry as an Indicator and Reflector of Popular Communal Activity in Lancashire during the Long Nineteenth Century
   Brian Hollingworth











7. The functional significance of dialect in Frances Trollope’s The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, Factory Boy (1840)
   Suzanne Pickles, University of Sheffield











8. Language, Differentiation and Convergence: The Shifting Ideologies of Tyneside Dialect Song in the Nineteenth Century
   Rod Hermeston, Sheffield Hallam University











9. Linguistic Self-Fashioning in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton
   Taryn Hakala, University of California, Merced











10. The Depiction of the Non-Native Speaker in Two Versions of the Madame Butterfly Story
    Richard Steadman-Jones, University of Sheffield

　

O autorze

Jane Hodson is Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Sheffield, UK.