Race and the rise of standard American
Record details
- ISBN: 3110851997
- ISBN: 9783110851991
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. The legitimation of accent. 1.1. Power, pronunciation, and the symbolic. 1.2. Standard ideology. 1.3. The story of r. 1.4. Heartland rules -- 2. Pronunciations of race. 2.1. Saxons and swarthy Swedes: race and alterity in Benjamin Franklin. 2.2. From Noah to Noah: Webster's ideology of American race and language. 2.3. Class and race in the nineteenth century. 2.3.1. Sounding moral in the antebellum interlude. 2.3.2. Sounding ethnic at the century's end. 2.4. Boston's last stand: the prescriptions of Henry James. 2.5. Of tides and tongues: race, language, and immigration. 2.6. Teutonic struggles: Mencken and Matthews. 2.7. Vizetelly and the birth of network standard -- 3. Occident, orient, and alien. 3.1. Harvard looks west. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified NLC staff and students only. |
Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
Language Note: | English. |
Action Note: | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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