{"product_id":"the-victorians-and-english-dialect-matthew-townend-9780198888123","title":"The Victorians and English Dialect: Philology, Fiction, and Folklore","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Victorians and English Dialect\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. It traces the connection between dialect and literature, in the flourishing of dialect poetry and the foregrounding of regional voices in Victorian fiction. It explains 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Townend\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198888120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198888123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/24\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.30d","brand":"Matthew Townend","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46670556299519,"sku":"9780198888123","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_de7e4e0a-c3d8-4b4e-9af8-8b0c0d1570ff.jpg?v=1741316989","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-victorians-and-english-dialect-matthew-townend-9780198888123","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}