Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 1 Why investigate dialect and literature in the nineteenth century? -- 2 A brief history of research into nineteenth-century dialect and literature -- 3 An overview of this volume -- Note -- References -- PART I: Theory -- 2. Nineteenth-century dialect literature and the enregisterment of urban vernaculars -- 1 A paradox: Dialect literature and the 'death' of dialects -- 2 Ideology, indexicality and enregisterment -- 3 The 'Geordie' repertoire -- 4 The 'Northumbrian Burr' -- 5 Glottalisation: The 'dog that didn't bark' -- 6 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3. 'I expect that I prefer them horses considerable beyond the oxen': American English in British fiction 1800-1836 -- 1 What does an American sound like? -- 2 Methodology -- 3 Susan Ferrier The Inheritance (1824) -- 4 Anne Catherine Monkland Life in India (1828) -- 5 Thomas Henry Lister Arlington (1832) -- 6 Frances Trollope The Refugee in America (1832) -- 7 Frances Trollope Jonathan Jefferson Whitelaw (1836) -- 8 Benson Earle Hill Recollections of an Artillery Officer (1836) -- 9 Coda: 1853 revisions to The Inheritance -- 10 Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- References -- 4. 'An' I 'oäps as 'e beänt booöklarn'd: but 'e dosn' not coom fro' the shere': Alfred Tennyson's dialect poetry and insider/outsider readers and writers -- 1 Authenticity -- 2 Alfred Lord Tennyson and his Lincolnshire poetry -- 3 On the representation of speech in writing with special reference to insiders/outsiders -- 4 The challenges of the written system -- 5 Regional accents in nineteenth-century England: Factual knowledge and literary representation -- 6 Evaluating Tennyson's dialect representation -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- PART II: Context