TY - BOOK AU - Nurhussein,Nadia ED - Project Muse. TI - Rhetorics of literacy: the cultivation of American dialect poetry SN - 9780814270141 AV - PS323 .N87 2013 U1 - 811.009 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Columbus PB - Ohio State University Press KW - Literacy in literature KW - American poetry KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - 19th century KW - Dialect poetry, American KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The difficulty of dialect poetry -- Plain and peculiar dialects : Bret Harte and James Whitcomb Riley -- Lettered dialect : Paul Laurence Dunbar I -- Cultivated dialect : Paul Laurence Dunbar II -- Gendered dialect : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Maggie Pogue Johnson -- Annotated dialect : Claude McKay and Langston Hughes UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814270141/ ER -