1st Edition
Dialect and Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century
Edited By Jane Hodson
Copyright 2017
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
196 Pages
by
Routledge
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The nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation in the literary uses of dialect, with dialect becoming a key feature in the development of the realist novel, dialect songs being printed by the hundreds in urban centres and dialect poetry becoming a respected form. In this collection, scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, including dialectology, literary linguistics, sociolinguistics,... Read more
Contents
- Introduction
Jane Hodson, University of Sheffield - Nineteenth-century Dialect Literature and the Enregisterment of Urban Vernaculars
Joan Beal, University of Sheffield - "I expect that I prefer them horses considerable beyond the oxen": American English in British fiction 1800-1836
Jane Hodson, University of Sheffield - "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 - The textual history of Josiah Relph’s Cumberland poems: inventing dialect literature in the long nineteenth century
Alex Broadhead, University of Liverpool - Dialect Poetry as an Indicator and Reflector of Popular Communal Activity in Lancashire during the Long Nineteenth Century
Brian Hollingworth - The functional significance of dialect in Frances Trollope’s The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, Factory Boy (1840)
Suzanne Pickles, University of Sheffield - Language, Differentiation and Convergence: The Shifting Ideologies of Tyneside Dialect Song in the Nineteenth Century
Rod Hermeston, Sheffield Hallam University - Linguistic Self-Fashioning in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton
Taryn Hakala, University of California, Merced - The Depiction of the Non-Native Speaker in Two Versions of the Madame Butterfly Story
Richard Steadman-Jones, University of Sheffield
Biography
Jane Hodson is Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Sheffield, UK.
