Anniversary essays on Johnson's dictionary

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Anniversary essays on Johnson's dictionary

edited by Jack Lynch and Anne McDermott

Cambridge University Press, 2005

  • : hbk

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Includes indexes

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  • 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" opposition / Nicholas Hudson
  • Johnson's extempore history and grammar of the English language / Robert DeMaria, Jr.
  • Johnson the prescriptivist? : the case for the prosecution / Geff 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 compouds 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

Details

  • NCID
    BA71755992
  • ISBN
    • 052184844X
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge, UK ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xi, 245 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
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