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  • The Lexicographer's Dilemma

    The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park

    by Jack Lynch ...
    In its long history, the English language has had many lawmakers--those who have tried to regulate or otherwise organize the way we speak. Proper Words in Proper Places offers the first narrative history of these endeavors and shows clearly that what we now regard as the only "correct" way to speak emerged out of specific historical and social conditions over the course of centuries. As historian ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • You Could Look It Up

    The Reference Shelf From Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia

    by Jack Lynch ...
    "Knowledge is of two kinds," said Samuel Johnson in 1775. "We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line of aggregated knowledge--reference works that have shaped the way we've seen the world for centuries.You Could Look It Up chronicles ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Age of Johnson

    A Scholarly Annual (Volume 25)

    by J.V. Hirschmann, M.C. Lang, Paul Tankard, Michael Cop, Matthew Davis, Stephen Clarke, Mona Scheuermann, Brian Glover, Melvyn New, Jonathan Wales, Sarah Winter, Adam Potkay, Catherine Parisian ...
    Series series The Age of Johnson
    For more than twenty years, The Age of Johnson has aspired to present to a wide readership a body of influential Johnsonian scholarship “in the broadest sense,” as founder Paul J. Korshin put it. In keeping with this sentiment, volume 25 contains cant-free scholarly articles and essays written by both leaders in the field and emerging scholars, among them a London barrister and a medical school ... Read more

    $115.19 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson

    Edited by Jack Lynch ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    No major author worked in more genres than Samuel Johnson--essays, poetry, fiction, criticism, biography, scholarly editing, lexicography, translation, sermons, journalism. His works are more extensive than those of any other canonical English writer, and no earlier writer's life was documented as thoroughly by contemporaries. Because it's so difficult to know him thoroughly, people have made do ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Making Stars

    Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain

    by Stuart Sherman, Semane Parsons, Heather McPherson, Sören Hammerschmidt, Kevin Bourque, Glynis Ridley, Jack Lynch, Elaine McGirr, Sarah Ailwood, Anne Betty Weinshenker, Rebecca Tierney-Hynes, Miriam L. Wallace, Teri Doerksen, Kirsten Teresa Saxton, Jane Wessel ...
    Series series Performing Celebrity
    In bringing biography and celebrity together, the essays in Making Stars interrogate contemporary and current understandings of each. Although biography was not invented in the eighteenth century, the period saw the emergence of works that focus on individuals who are interesting as much, if not more, for their everyday, lived experience than for their status or actions. At the same time, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

    by Samuel Johnson, James Boswell ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides resulted in two books, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), a kind of locodescriptive ethnography and Johnson's most important work between his Shakespeare edition and his Lives of the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800

    Edited by Jack Lynch ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, forty-four authorities from six countries survey the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity--serious and satirical, public and private, by men and women, nobles and peasants, whether published in deluxe editions or sung on the streets. The ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Fixing Babel

    An Historical Anthology of Applied English Lexicography

    by Rebecca Shapiro ...
    We all think we know what a dictionary is for and how to use one, so most of us skip the first pages—the front matter—and go right to the words we wish to look up. Yet dictionary users have not always known how English “works” and my book reproduces and examines for the first time important texts in which seventeenth- and eighteenth-century dictionary authors explain choices and promote ideas to ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-Century Britain

    by Jack Lynch ...
    In the first extended treatment of the debates surrounding public deception in eighteenth-century Britain, Jack Lynch contends that forgery, fakery, and fraud make explicit the usually unspoken grounds on which Britons made sense of their world. Confrontations with inauthenticity, in other words, bring tacitly understood conceptions of reality to the surface. Drawing on a wide range of ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • 1650-1850

    Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 25)

    by Jack Lynch, Howard Weinbrot, Molly Marotta, Yu Liu, Claude Willan, Daniel Gustafson, James Horowitz, Philip S. Palmer, Pat Rogers, Sarah Stein, Samara Anne Cahill, Suzanne L. Barnett, R.J.W. Mills, Nigel Penn, Christopher Trigg, Mark G. Spencer, Roy Bogas, Gefen Bar-On Santor, Isabel Rivers, Richard P. Heitzenrater, Malcolm Jack, Kate Brown, Jane R. Stevens, Robin Runia, Paula Pinto, Tamara Wagner, Anthony W. Lee ...
    Series Book 25 - 1650-1850
    Volume 25 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era investigates the local textures that make up the whole cloth of the Enlightenment. Ranging from China to Cheltenham and from Spinoza to civil insurrection, volume 25 celebrates the emergence of long-eighteenth-century culture from particularities and prodigies. Unfurling in the folds of this volume is a special ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • The Age of Johnson

    A Scholarly Annual (Volume 24)

    by Stephen Clarke, Marcus Walsh, Matthew Davis, Anthony W. Lee, Paul Tankard, Susan Kubica Howard, Suzanna Geiser, Peter Briggs, David Venturo, Eric Bennett, John Richetti, Jacob Sider Jost, Robert DeMaria, Joseph F. Bartolomeo, Heinz-Joachim Müllenbrock ...
    Series Book 24 - The Age of Johnson
    The move to a new publisher has given The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual the opportunity to recommit to what it does best: present to a wide readership cant-free scholarly articles and essays and searching book reviews, all featuring a wide variety of approaches, written by both seasoned scholars and relative newcomers. Volume 24 features commentary on a range of Johnsonian topics: his ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Samuel Johnson in Context

    Edited by Jack Lynch ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Few authors benefit from being set in their contemporary context more than Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson in Context is a guide to his world, offering readers a comprehensive account of eighteenth-century life and culture as it relates to his work. Short, lively and eminently readable chapters illuminate not only Johnson's own life, writings and career, but the literary, critical, journalistic, ... Read more

    $36.89 USD