The whole world in a book : dictionaries in the nineteenth century /
Nineteenth-century readers had an appetite for books so big they seemed to contain the whole world: immense novels, series of novels, encyclopaedias. Especially in Eurasia and North America, especially among the middle and upper classes, people had the space, time, and energy for very long books. Mo...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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书本目录:
- Introduction
- The unfinished business of eighteenth-century European lexicography
- Foreign interests: nineteenth-century lexicography in Russia and Japan
- The lexical object: Richardson's new dictionary of the English language (1836-1837)
- A nineteenth-century garment throughout: description, collaboration, and thorough coverage in the Oxford English dictionary (1884-1928)
- Between science and romanticism: the deutsches wörterbuch of the Brothers Grimm
- Joost Halbertsma and the lexicon frisicum
- The first Scottish 'national' dictionary: John Jamieson's etymological dictionary of the Scottish language (1808/1825)
- French lexicography in Québec: the works and ideas of Oscar Dunn
- Christian nationalism in Noah Webster's lexicography
- The invention of the modern dictionary: Webster's unabridged of 1864
- Lord of the words: Vladimir Dahl's explanatory dictionary of the living great-Russian language as a national epic
- Lexicography of the entrenched empire: Banihûn's and Pu-gong's Manchu-Chinese literary ocean (1821)
- Steingass's comprehensive Persian-English dictionary and the rise and fall of Persian as a transregional language
- Sharper tools: missionary women's lexicography in Asia
- Dialect joke books and Russian-Yiddish and Engish-Yiddish dictionaries
- Dictionaries of libras from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century: historical continuities and persistent challenges
- A timeline of lexicography in the long nineteenth century
- Index.