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Subject: ADS-L Digest - 4 Oct 1997 to 5 Oct 1997
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Topics of the day:

 1. dialect in literature (3)
 2. ONE: In & Out of a homosexual magazine

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Date:  Sun, 5 Oct 1997 11:42:14 -0500
From:  Larry Rosenwald <LROSENWALD[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WELLESLEY.EDU>
Subject: dialect in literature

    Hi -
    I have a question, or a couple of questions, I'd like to ask
readers of this list. I'm writing a study of the representation of English
-language dialects in American literature towards the end of the 19th
century. What I'd like to know is, 1) are there works of American
literature whose representation you particularly admire or disdain? 2)
are there good contemporary scholarly essays on the representation of
dialect? 3) are there interesting 19th-century views on the representation
of dialect?
    I'm not at the beginning of this study, but I'm not at the end of
it either. I know Sumner Ives' "A Theory of Literary Dialect," and the
remarks about the representation of dialect in Raymond Williams' _The
Country and the City_, and the remarks made by writers like Henry James
and William Dean Howells. I'd be grateful for any pointers, citations, or
opinions.
    Best, Larry Rosenwald, Wellesley College