Author: Sir Adolphus William Ward
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
The Cambridge History of English Literature: The nineteenth century. III
Author: Sir Adolphus William Ward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
The Cambridge History of English Literature
Author: Sir Adolphus William Ward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
Author: Julie Coleman
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191563587
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
This book continues Julie Coleman's acclaimed history of dictionaries of English slang and cant. It describes the increasingly systematic and scholarly way in which such terms were recorded and classified in the UK, the USA, Australia, and elsewhere, and the huge growth in the publication of and public appetite for dictionaries, glossaries, and guides to the distinctive vocabularies of different social groups, classes, districts, regions, and nations. Dr Coleman describes the origins of words and phrases and explores their history. By copious example she shows how they cast light on everyday life across the globe - from settlers in Canada and Australia and cockneys in London to gang-members in New York and soldiers fighting in the Boer and First World Wars - as well as on the operations of the narcotics trade and the entertainment business and the lives of those attending American colleges and British public schools. The slang lexicographers were a colourful bunch. Those featured in this book include spiritualists, aristocrats, socialists, journalists, psychiatrists, school-boys, criminals, hoboes, police officers, and a serial bigamist. One provided the inspiration for Robert Lewis Stevenson's Long John Silver. Another was allegedly killed by a pork pie. Julie Coleman's account will interest historians of language, crime, poverty, sexuality, and the criminal underworld.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191563587
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
This book continues Julie Coleman's acclaimed history of dictionaries of English slang and cant. It describes the increasingly systematic and scholarly way in which such terms were recorded and classified in the UK, the USA, Australia, and elsewhere, and the huge growth in the publication of and public appetite for dictionaries, glossaries, and guides to the distinctive vocabularies of different social groups, classes, districts, regions, and nations. Dr Coleman describes the origins of words and phrases and explores their history. By copious example she shows how they cast light on everyday life across the globe - from settlers in Canada and Australia and cockneys in London to gang-members in New York and soldiers fighting in the Boer and First World Wars - as well as on the operations of the narcotics trade and the entertainment business and the lives of those attending American colleges and British public schools. The slang lexicographers were a colourful bunch. Those featured in this book include spiritualists, aristocrats, socialists, journalists, psychiatrists, school-boys, criminals, hoboes, police officers, and a serial bigamist. One provided the inspiration for Robert Lewis Stevenson's Long John Silver. Another was allegedly killed by a pork pie. Julie Coleman's account will interest historians of language, crime, poverty, sexuality, and the criminal underworld.
Popular Literature, a History and Guide
Author: Victor E. Neuburg
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780713001587
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
First Published in 1977. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780713001587
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
First Published in 1977. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
... Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Catalogue ...
Author: Halliday, Bernard, Firm, Booksellers, Leicester, Eng
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 952
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 952
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The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond Etc. Etc
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher:
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Category : Chance
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chance
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A Bibliography of Writings on the English Language from the Beginning of Printing to the End of 1922
Author: Arthur Garfield Kennedy
Publisher:
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Category : English philology
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English philology
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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