Title:
Anniversary essays on Johnson's dictionary / edited by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott.
Dictionary of the English language.
Author:
Lynch, Jack (John T) editor.
McDermott, Anne. joint editor.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes (p. 240-245).
The mythology of Johnson's Dictionary / Paul J. Korshin -- Dictionaries and power from Palsgrave to Johnson / Ian Lancashire -- What Johnson's illustrative quotations illustrate: language and viewpoint in the Dictionary / Howard D. Weinbrot -- Reassessing the political context of the Dictionary: Johnson and the "broad-bottom" oppisition / Nicholas Hudson -- Johnson's extempore history and grammar of the English language / Robert DeMaria, Jr. -- Johnson the The case for the prosecution / Geoff Barnbrook -- Johnson the prescriptivist? The case for the defense / Anne McDermott -- Johnson's encyclopedia / Jack Lynch -- The law, the alphabet, and Samuel Johnson / John Stone -- Hyphenated compounds in Johnson's Dictionary / Noel E. Osselton -- The typographic design of Johnson's Dictionary / Paul Luna -- The Dictionary in abstract: Johnson's abridgments of the Dictionary of the English language for the common reader / Catherine Dille -- Revision and the limits of collaboration: hands and texts in Johnson's Dictionary / Allen Reddick -- Hidden quarto editions of Johnson's Dictionary / R. Carter Hailey.
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press,
Publication Place:
New York :
ISBN:
052184844X
Subject:
English language. -- Lexicography.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism.
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784. Dictionary of the English language.
Contents:
The mythology of Johnson's Dictionary / Paul J. Korshin -- Dictionaries and power from Palsgrave to Johnson / Ian Lancashire -- What Johnson's illustrative quotations illustrate: language and viewpoint in the Dictionary / Howard D. Weinbrot -- Reassessing the political context of the Dictionary: Johnson and the "broad-bottom" oppisition / Nicholas Hudson -- Johnson's extempore history and grammar of the English language / Robert DeMaria, Jr. -- Johnson the The case for the prosecution / Geoff Barnbrook -- Johnson the prescriptivist? The case for the defense / Anne McDermott -- Johnson's encyclopedia / Jack Lynch -- The law, the alphabet, and Samuel Johnson / John Stone -- Hyphenated compounds in Johnson's Dictionary / Noel E. Osselton -- The typographic design of Johnson's Dictionary / Paul Luna -- The Dictionary in abstract: Johnson's abridgments of the Dictionary of the English language for the common reader / Catherine Dille -- Revision and the limits of collaboration: hands and texts in Johnson's Dictionary / Allen Reddick -- Hidden quarto editions of Johnson's Dictionary / R. Carter Hailey.
Physical Description:
xi, 245 p. : ill. ;
Electronic Location:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0632/2005047127-d.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0632/2005047127-t.html
Publication Date:
2005.
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