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Language, race, and social class in Howells's America /

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 concer...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nettels, Elsa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 1988.
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