Rhetorics of literacy
Subtitle: the cultivation of American dialect poetry
By: Nadia Nurhussein
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780814212165; 9780814293171
Subjects: American Dialect poetry; History and criticism; Literacy in literature; American poetry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The difficulty of dialect poetry; title: Plain and peculiar dialects : Bret Harte and James Whitcomb Riley; title: Lettered dialect : Paul Laurence Dunbar I; title: Cultivated dialect : Paul Laurence Dunbar II; title: Gendered dialect : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Maggie Pogue Johnson; title: Annotated dialect : Claude McKay and Langston Hughes.