"This book uncovers how same-sex acts, desires, and identities have been represented in English dictionaries in Britain from the early modern to the interwar period. In doing so, it responds and contributes to established traditions and new trends in linguistics, queer theory, literary criticism, and the history of sexuality"--
| Autor: | Turton, Stephen |
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| ISBN: | 9781316518731 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Cambridge Academic |
| Veröffentlicht: | 21.03.2024 |
| Untertitel: | Sexuality and the English Dictionary, 1600–1930 |
| Schlagworte: | 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899 20th Century 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 C 1600 To C 1700 C 1700 To C 1800 English Gay & Lesbian studies Historical & comparative linguistics Historical and comparative linguistics LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Lexicography LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics LGBTQ+ Studies / topics Lexicography SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General Sociolinguistics c 1800 to c 1900 |
Stephen Turton is a Research Fellow in English at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He writes and teaches on the history of English, lexicography, literature, and gender and sexuality. He is the co-editor of an ongoing project to digitize the letters of James A. H. Murray, the ?rst chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (www.MurrayScriptorium.org).