Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 07:04:18 -0500

From: Alan R Slotkin ARS7950[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]TNTECH.EDU

Subject: Re: FUHGEDDABOUTIT?: the Bowery Boy and "Brooklynese"



Let us not forget Stephen Crane in this matter. Crane's character diction in

Maggie is Bowery dialect--and according to William Dean Howells, the best

representation of it. Maggie appears first in 1893 and republished in its

expurgated form in 1895.



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