Dialect and Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Submitting institution
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The University of Sheffield
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 4680
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780367882235
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- Hodson was the sole editor on this publication. She conceived the idea for the project, approached suitable contributors and edited the essays they submitted. She wrote the introduction (1-13) which provides an account of work on the representation of dialect in literature in the nineteenth century to date, and identifies the key questions that the volume considers. She also contributes a chapter entitled ‘“I expect that I prefer them horses considerable beyond the oxen”: American English in British fiction 1800-1836’ (33-50). In this chapter, she explores the representation of the speech of white Americans in six novels published in the early nineteenth century. Paying attention to both the literary and sociohistorical dimensions of dialect representation, she finds evidence for the emergence of a stereotype of the "vulgar American" with an associated repertoire of linguistic features. She situates this within a broader shift in the uses of nonstandard language to voice literary characters at the start of the nineteenth century.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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