The politics of American English, 1776-1850
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- ISBN: 0195037243
- ISBN: 9780195037241
- ISBN: 0195056434
- ISBN: 9780195056433
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Physical Description:
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x, 301 pages ; 22 cm - Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-294) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Abbreviations -- Introduction: Language still becoming -- Prologue: 1776 -- Founding Fathers And The Legacies Of Language: -- British inheritance -- Debate in America -- Noah Webster: -- Spoken and the written -- Federalism and the common man -- Horne Tooke and the Saxon Yoke -- Liberties Of Literature, 1776-1810: -- Poetry and patriotism -- Prose fiction and the dialect tradition -- Exposition of Lewis and Clark -- 1812 Overtures And Jacksonian Operas: -- Patriotic irony: James Kirke Paulding -- Democracy and eloquence -- Versions of the "common" language -- Languages Of Cooper's Novels: -- Cooper on the state of the language -- Language of the leatherstocking -- Cooper's other languages -- Silence And Poetry: The Language Of The Native American -- Soul Of Language: The Transcendentalist Alternative -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Genre: | Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Lummi Library | PE 2809 .S56 1986 | 2239617 | Stacks | Available | - |