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Cambridge University Press Before the Word Was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary, 1600–1930

Name: Before the Word Was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary, 1600-1930
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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Bringing 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.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1316518736
Category: Books > Subjects > LGBTQ+ Books
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 21 March 2024
Listed Since: 07 September 2023

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