Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 18:05:51 -0400

From: Peggy Smith dj611[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU

Subject: Re: dialect in literature



Stephen Crane's _Maggie: A Girl of the Streets_ is a short, but important

work from the end of the 19th century that you might want to include in

your study. Crane uses the Irish street slang of the Bowery during that

period. As I understand it, the work was considered groundbreaking in

its use of realistic dialect in fiction.



Peggy Smith