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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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