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Before the Word Was Queer : Sexuality and English Lexicography, 1600-1930 by Stephen Turton (2024, Hardcover)
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Before the Word Was Queer : Sexuality and the English Dictionary, 1, Hardcover by Turton, Stephen, ISBN 1316518736, ISBN-13 9781316518731, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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"--
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101316518736
ISBN-139781316518731
eBay Product ID (ePID)18064615917
Product Key Features
Number of Pages350 Pages
Publication NameBefore the Word Was Queer : Sexuality and English Lexicography, 1600-1930
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2024
SubjectGeneral, Linguistics / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines
AuthorStephen Turton
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN2023-041846
Dewey Edition23/eng/20231204
Reviews'Written with grace and clarity, this book makes an irrefutable case for historical lexicography and the light it sheds on past understanding of same-sex desire. In particular, it sets out new research on love and sex between women. It combines mastery of lexicographical detail with lucid exploration of the intellectual frameworks shaping historical attitudes to sex.' Charlotte Brewer, Hertford College, University of Oxford
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal423.028
Table Of ContentList of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Charting the Sexual and Lexical Outlands; 1. Legislating Acts: The Limits of Buggery, Sodomy, and Copulation; 2. Estranging English: The Centre of the Language and the Queer Frontier; 3. Silencing Sex: Social Propriety and Lexical Censorship; 4. Dissecting Matter: Odd Bodies in Medical Dictionaries; 5. Taxonomizing Desire: Science and Sexuality in the Oxford English Dictionary; Conclusion: Looking beyond the Queer and Now; Appendix I: Anne Lister's Erotic Glossary; Appendix II: Same-sex Definitions in Dictionaries, 1604-1933; References; Index.
SynopsisBringing together research from queer linguistics and lexicography, this book uncovers how same-sex acts, desires, and identities have been represented in English dictionaries published in Britain from the early modern to the inter-war period. Moving across time - from the appearance of the First standalone English dictionary to the completion of the First edition of the Oxford English Dictionary - and shuttling across genres - from general usage, hard words, thieves' cant, and slang to law, medicine, classical myth, women's biography, and etymology - it asks how dictionary-writers made sense of same-sex intimacy, and how they failed or refused to make sense of it. It also queries how readers interacted with dictionaries' constructions of sexual morality, against the broader backdrop of changing legal, religious, and scientiFic institutions. In answering these questions, the book responds and contributes to established traditions and new trends in linguistics, queer theory, literary criticism, and the history of sexuality.ary criticism, and the history of sexuality.ary criticism, and the history of sexuality.ary criticism, and the history of sexuality., 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.
LC Classification NumberPE1611.T87 2024
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