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Oxford University Press The Victorians and English Dialect: Philology, Fiction, and Folklore

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The Victorians and English Dialect tells the story of the Victorians' discovery of English dialect, and of the revaluation of local language that was brought about by the new, historical philology of the nineteenth century. Regional dialects came to be seen not as corrupt or pernicious, but rather as venerable and precious. The book examines the work of the ground-breaking collectors of the 1840s and 1850s, who first alerted their contemporaries to the importance of local dialect - and also to the perils that threatened it with extinction.It traces the connection between dialect and literature, in the flourishing of dialect poetry and the foregrounding of regional voices in Victorian fiction. It explains how the antiquity of regional dialects cast light on the national past - the Celts, Anglo-Saxons, and Vikings - and how dialect study was also at the heart of the discovery of local folklore and oral culture: old words, old customs, old beliefs. And it tells the story of the three great monuments of Victorian dialect study that marked the apogee of regional philology: the 80 publications of the English Dialect Society (1873-96), an organization run by a committee of journalists and local historians in Manchester; the nationwide survey of The Existing Phonology of English Dialects (1889), which listened in on local speech in market squares and third-class railway carriages; and the multi-volume English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905), which collected all the previous labours together, and made an enduring record of Victorian dialect.

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The Victorians And English Dialect: Philology, Fiction, And Folklore

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Brand: Oxford University Press

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Brand: Oxford University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0198888120
Category: Books > Subjects > Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative Linguistics
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 09 July 2024
Listed Since: 31 January 2024

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