Rhetorics of Literacy The Cultivation of American Dialect Poetry /
Nadia Nurhussein.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The difficulty of dialect poetry -- Plain and peculiar dialects : Bret Harte and James Whitcomb Riley -- Lettered dialect : Paul Laurence Dunbar I -- Cultivated dialect : Paul Laurence Dunbar II -- Gendered dialect : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Maggie Pogue Johnson -- Annotated dialect : Claude McKay and Langston Hughes.
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Literacy in literature. American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century American poetry--History and criticism.--19th century Dialect poetry, American--History and criticism.