Author: Mary PowleyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338523414X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Echoes of Old Cumberland
Author: Mary PowleyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338523414X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Echoes of Old Cumberland
Author: Mary PowleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cumberland (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The Victorians and English Dialect
Author: Matthew TownendPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198888198
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
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. Tracing the connection between dialect and literature, in the flourishing of dialect poetry and the foregrounding of regional voices in Victorian fiction. It goes on to explain 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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Author: A Glossary of the Dialect of Almondbury and Huddersfield
Author: Alfred EastherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Westminster Review
Author: Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
Author: Record of the Year
Author: Record of the Year, a Reference Scrap Book
Author: Frank MooreThe Lake Counties
Author: William Gershom CollingwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lake District (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description