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- W2334673391 abstract "I N a letter for the celebration of William Dean Howells' seventy-fifth birthday, Henry James praised his friend for revealing more finely than any other novelist the nature of American life: Stroke by stroke and book by book your work was to become, for this exquisite notation of our whole democratic light and shade and give and take, in the highest degree documentary; so that none other, through all your fine long season, could approach it in value and amplitude.'l No aspect of the American life that he documented was of more interest to Howells than the American language. Throughout his career he carefully recorded the speech of those around him. In novel after novel he showed how characters reveal themselves and their social conditions by their speech. His novels not only are mines of American idiom, as H. L. Mencken observed;2 they are filled with observations about language, descriptions of voices and pronunciation, and judgments made by characters about each other on the basis of their speech. In his criticism and fiction, Howells testified to his absorbing interest in the American language. More than twenty essays and reviews are devoted to the differences between American and British English, spelling reform, the pronunciation of the letter r in the United States, and the values of dialect. He was not a trained linguist, but his reviews and essays reveal his familiarity with the important works on language and basic linguistic principles.3 More important to the appreciation of his achievement as a novelist is his view of language" @default.
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- W2334673391 title "William Dean Howells and the American Language" @default.
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