| Description |
1 online resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Background; Elias and Me; Preface; A Note on This Text; Introduction: Part I; Introduction: Part II; Introduction: Part III; Introduction: Part IV; The Word-Book; Photospread; Appendix A. Surviving Documents Said to Be in Esther Johnson's Hand; Appendix B. Documents Supposed to Display Esther Johnson's or Rebecca Dingley's Hand; Appendix C. Matthew Concanen's Miscellaneous Poems (1724): Including Two Poems Sometimes Attributed to Esther Johnson; Appendix D.A Checklist of Early English Dictionaries |
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Appendix E. Sample Entries from the Word-Book Compared with Other Contemporary DictionariesAppendix F. Littleton's English/Latin, Latin/English Dictionary; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Editors |
| Summary |
Appearing for this first time in print, Word-Book is Swift's dictionary of words and definitions for his protégé Esther Johnson. The volume includes photographs from and a transcript of the original book. Supplementing the transcript are the editors notations showing Swift's corrections in Johnson's text, essays comparing Swift's dictionary to others available at that time and exploring the social and psychological milieu in which it was written, and detailed appendices. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 -- Knowledge -- Language and languages.
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Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. |
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English language -- Dictionaries.
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English language -- 18th century.
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REFERENCE -- Dictionaries. |
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English language. |
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Language and languages. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Dictionaries.
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| Added Author |
Johnson, Esther, 1681-1728, contributor.
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Elias, A. C., editor.
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Fischer, John Irwin, 1940- editor.
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Reid, Panthea.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Jonathan Swift's Word-book. Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017] 9781611496567 (DLC) 2017021812 |
| ISBN |
9781611496567 (electronic bk.) |
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161149656X (electronic bk.) |
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9781644530269 (electronic bk.) |
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1644530260 (electronic bk.) |
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9781611496550 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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1611496551 |
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