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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
of his pseudonym Clark was not one of the many dialect writers. The verbal humours of German-American speech were further exhibited, however, in the Yawcob Strauss rhymes of Charles Follen Adams. Negro dialect and certain broad aspects of darky pretentiousness were turned to laughable effect by Charles Bertrand Lewis (M. Quad) in The Lime-Kiln Club (1887) and other sketches. At the close of the century Bowery slang gained a temporary currency through the Chimmie Fadden stories of Edward Waterman Townsend, but Faddenism never seriously disturbed the cult of Mr. Dooley, whose Irish-American witticisms deserve more extended mention. A remarkable type of later slang, that in vented by an author and yet perfectly intelligible to all alert Americans, reached its apogee in the work of George Ade, whose Fables in slang (1900) have been followed by several volumes of a similar method. Humorists who did not rely upon dialect for their main effect usually began on the humour of a particula
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
326 Tippo Saib and others, 582 Titian, 96 To Anacreon in heaven, 494 Todd, C. B., 541 n. Todd, Mabel Loomis, 33 Todd, Mary, 371 To have and to hold, 91, 287, 550 Tolstoy, 81, 83, 87, 92, 606 Tome, Philip, 154 To-Morrow, 277 Tom Sawyer, 15, 16, 20 Tom Sawyer abroad, 15 Tom Sawyer, detective, 5 Tony the Bootblack, 287 Tools and the man, 217 Too much Johnson, 285 Torrence, Ridgely, 267 Torrey, Bradford, 165 Tourgee, Albion Winegar, 86, 352 Townsend, Edward Waterman, 26 Toymaker of Niiremburg, the, 292 Tracy, Destutt, 429-30 Trades Review, 438 Tragic muse, the, 103 Trail of the Lonesome Pine, 288 Train, George Francis, 145 Traits of American Indian life and character by a Fur trader, 137 Tramp abroad, a, 10 Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching, 497 Transactions (Am. Antiquarian Society), 445 n. Trans-Atlantic historical solidarity, 198 Transcendentalism in New England, 528 Transcript (Boston), 513 Transit of c