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Holy shit : a brief history of swearing / Melissa Mohr.
Van Pelt Library PE3724.S85 M65 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mohr, Melissa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Swearing--History.
- Swearing.
- English language--Obscene words--History.
- English language.
- English language--Slang--History.
- English language--Social aspects--History.
- English language--History.
- History.
- English language--Social aspects.
- English language--Slang.
- English language--Obscene words.
- Physical Description:
- x, 316 pages : illustrations, plans ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Holy sh*t
- Brief history of swearing
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- To speak with Roman plainness : ancient Rome
- On Earth as it is in Heaven : the Bible
- Swearing God to pieces : the Middle Ages
- The rise of obscenity : the Renaissance
- The Age of Euphemism : the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- "Fuck 'em all" : swearing in the twentieth century and beyond.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0199742677
- 9780199742677
- OCLC:
- 808810910
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