Dialect, Victorian Poetry, and the Voices of Print
(2023)
Journal Article
Dubois, M. (2023). Dialect, Victorian Poetry, and the Voices of Print. ELH: English Literary History, 90(4), 1069-1098. https://doi.org/10.1353/elh.2023.a914016
This essay addresses the status of voice and print in dialect poetry through a study of its mid-nineteenth-century heyday in British literature. Dialect poems are often imagined to render oral forms into print, so that their writtenness appears secon... Read More about Dialect, Victorian Poetry, and the Voices of Print.