Dialect and Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century

Jane Hodson is Senior Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Contents






Introduction
Jane Hodson, University of Sheffield



Nineteenth-century Dialect Literature and the Enregisterment of Urban Vernaculars
Joan Beal, University of Sheffield



"I expect that I prefer them horses considerable beyond the oxen": American English in British fiction 1800-1836
Jane Hodson, University of Sheffield



"An' I 'oäps as 'e beänt booöklarn'd: but 'e dosn' not coom fro' the shere": Alfred Tennyson’s dialect poetry and insider/outsider readers and writers
Gunnel Melchers, Stockholm University



The textual history of Josiah Relph’s Cumberland poems: inventing dialect literature in the long nineteenth century
Alex Broadhead, University of Liverpool



Dialect Poetry as an Indicator and Reflector of Popular Communal Activity in Lancashire during the Long Nineteenth Century
Brian Hollingworth



The functional significance of dialect in Frances Trollope’s The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, Factory Boy (1840)
Suzanne Pickles, University of Sheffield



Language, Differentiation and Convergence: The Shifting Ideologies of Tyneside Dialect Song in the Nineteenth Century
Rod Hermeston, Sheffield Hallam University



Linguistic Self-Fashioning in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary BartonTaryn Hakala, University of California, Merced



The Depiction of the Non-Native Speaker in Two Versions of the Madame Butterfly Story
Richard Steadman-Jones, University of Sheffield