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Author : Francis Grose
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Download or read book A Provincial Glossary. 1787 written by Francis Grose and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Grose
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Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Provincial Glossary written by Francis Grose and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Rennie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019963940X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots written by Susan Rennie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first account of the making of John Jamieson's pioneering Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language first published between 1808 and 1825. Susan Rennie describes Jamieson's work and methods interweaving her account with biography and linguistic, social, and book history to present a rounded picture of the man, his work, and his times.
Author : Allibone
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Total Pages : 1024 pages
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Download or read book A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased written by Allibone and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julie Coleman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191565253
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries written by Julie Coleman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of Julie Coleman's entertaining and revealing history of the recording and uses of slang and criminal cant takes the story from 1785 to 1858, and explores their manifestations in the United States of America and Australia. During this period glossaries of cant were thrown into the shade by dictionaries of slang, which now covered a broad spectrum of non-standard English, including the language of thieves. Julie Coleman shows how Francis Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue revolutionized the lexicography of the underworld. She explores the compilation and content of the earliest Australian and American slang glossaries, whose authors included the thrice-transported James Hardy Vaux and the legendary George Matsell, New York City's first chief of police, whose The Secret Language of Crime: The Rogue's Lexicon informed the script of Martin Scorcese's film Gangs of New York. Cant represented a tangible danger to life and property, but slang threatened to undermine good behaviour and social morality. Julie Coleman shows how and why they were at once repellent and seductive. Her fascinating account casts fresh light on language and life in some of the darker regions of Great Britain and the English-speaking world.
Author : David Patrick
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Total Pages : 1026 pages
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Download or read book Chambers's Biographical Dictionary written by David Patrick and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Perry
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Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
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Author : Evan Gottlieb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317065883
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660-1830 written by Evan Gottlieb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revising traditional 'rise of the nation-state' narratives, this collection explores the development of and interactions among various forms of local, national, and transnational identities and affiliations during the long eighteenth century. By treating place as historically contingent and socially constructed, this volume examines how Britons experienced and related to a landscape altered by agricultural and industrial modernization, political and religious reform, migration, and the building of nascent overseas empires. In mapping the literary and cultural geographies of the long eighteenth century, the volume poses three challenges to common critical assumptions about the relationships among genre, place, and periodization. First, it questions the novel’s exclusive hold on the imagining of national communities by examining how poetry, drama, travel-writing, and various forms of prose fiction each negotiated the relationships between the local, national, and global in distinct ways. Second, it demonstrates how viewing the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century through a broadly conceived lens of place brings to the foreground authors typically considered 'minor' when seen through more traditional aesthetic, cultural, or theoretical optics. Finally, it contextualizes Romanticism’s long-standing associations with the local and the particular, suggesting that literary localism did not originate in the Romantic era, but instead emerged from previous literary and cultural explorations of space and place. Taken together, the essays work to displace the nation-state as a central category of literary and cultural analysis in eighteenth-century studies.
Author : A. Roger Ekirch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393344584
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book At Day's Close: Night in Times Past written by A. Roger Ekirch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Remarkable.… Ekirch has emptied night's pockets, and laid the contents out before us." —Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker Bringing light to the shadows of history through a "rich weave of citation and archival evidence" (Publishers Weekly), scholar A. Roger Ekirch illuminates the aspects of life most often overlooked by other historians—those that unfold at night. In this "triumph of social history" (Mail on Sunday), Ekirch's "enthralling anthropology" (Harper's) exposes the nightlife that spawned a distinct culture and a refuge from daily life. Fear of crime, of fire, and of the supernatural; the importance of moonlight; the increased incidence of sickness and death at night; evening gatherings to spin wool and stories; masqued balls; inns, taverns, and brothels; the strategies of thieves, assassins, and conspirators; the protective uses of incantations, meditations, and prayers; the nature of our predecessors' sleep and dreams—Ekirch reveals all these and more in his "monumental study" (The Nation) of sociocultural history, "maintaining throughout an infectious sense of wonder" (Booklist).
Author : Edward Brooke-Hitching
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471166929
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)
Download or read book The Madman's Library written by Edward Brooke-Hitching and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK * 'Anybody who loves the printed word will be bowled over by this amusing, erudite, beautiful book about books. It is in every way a triumph. One of the loveliest books to have been published for many, many years' Alexander McCall Smith 'Quite simply the best gift for any book lover this year, or perhaps ever' Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times Literary Book of the Year 'An utterly joyous journey into the deepest eccentricities of the human mind… The most cheering, fascinating book I’ve read for ages' Guardian From the author of the critically acclaimed and globally successful The Phantom Atlas, The Golden Atlas and The Sky Atlas comes a stunning new work. The Madman’s Library is a unique, beautifully illustrated journey through the entire history of literature, delving into its darkest territories to hunt down the very strangest books ever written, and uncover the fascinating stories behind their creation. This is a madman’s library of eccentric and extraordinary volumes from around the world, many of which have been completely forgotten. Books written in blood and books that kill, books of the insane and books that hoaxed the globe, books invisible to the naked eye and books so long they could destroy the Universe, books worn into battle, books of code and cypher whose secrets remain undiscovered… and a few others that are just plain weird. From the 605-page Qur'an written in the blood of Saddam Hussein, through the gorgeously decorated 15th-century lawsuit filed by the Devil against Jesus, to the lost art of binding books with human skin, every strand of strangeness imaginable (and many inconceivable) has been unearthed and bound together for a unique and richly illustrated collection ideal for every book-lover.
Author : Captain Francis Grose
Publisher : Beard Books
ISBN 13 : 9781587982477
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (824 download)
Download or read book A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue written by Captain Francis Grose and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 1931 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1931 edition of the classic that presents the fashionable words and favorite expressions of olden times.
Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
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Total Pages : 1028 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book A critical dictionary of English literature, and British and American authors living and deceased written by Samuel Austin Allibone and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 262 pages
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Author : Jacqueline Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191578525
Total Pages : 1046 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of English Folklore written by Jacqueline Simpson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-09 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format. An engrossing guide to English folklore and traditions, with over 1,250 entries. Folklore is connected to virtually every aspect of life, part of the country, age group, and occupation. From the bizarre to the seemingly mundane, it is as much a feature of the modern technological age as of the ancient world. BL Oral and Performance genres-Cheese rolling, Morris dancing, Well-dressingEL BL Superstitions-Charms, Rainbows, WishbonesEL BL Characters-Cinderella, Father Christmas, Robin Hood, Dick WhittingtonEL BL Supernatural Beliefs-Devil's hoofprints, Fairy rings, Frog showersEL BL Calendar Customs-April Fool's Day, Helston Furry Day, Valentine's DayEL
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ISBN 13 : 0199245436
Total Pages : 795 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
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Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century written by Samuel Austin Allibone and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1172 pages
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Download or read book A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century by S. Austin Allibone written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
