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Contents
- Preface ix
- Abbreviations xv
- 1. Introduction: The Problem of Variety
in Language 1 - 2. "A Lot of Rules": Mark Twain
and Grammar 15 - 3. The Gilded Age and the Corruption
of Language 37 - 4. "Babel Come Again": Mark Twain
and Foreign Languages 51 - 5. Not All Trying to Talk Alike: Varieties
of Language in Huckleberry Finn 85 - 6. Languages of Power and Submission
in Pudd'nhead Wilson 110 - 7. Toward a Chaos of Incomprehensibilities 126
- Notes 155
- Selected Bibliography 179
- Index 185
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