The Dialect of Modernism
Subtitle: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature (Race and American Culture)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: December 26, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780195122916
First sentence: In the preface to Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw reassures his readers, some of whom might be daunted by the dazzling success of Eliza Doolittle, that she is but an example of the "many thousands of men and women who have sloughed off their native dialects and acquired a new tongue."