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Words, books, images, and the long eighteenth century : essays for Allen Reddick / edited by Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, Mark Ittensohn, Enit K. Steiner & Olga Timofeeva.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures
- FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures ; v.16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Books and reading--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Books and reading.
- English language--Lexicography--History--18th century.
- English language.
- Publishers and publishing--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]
- Summary:
- "The essays collected in this volume engage in a conversation between lexicography, the culture of the book, and the canonization and commemoration of English literary figures and their works in the long eighteenth century. The source of inspiration for each piece is Allen Reddick's scholarship on Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), the great English lexicographer whose Dictionary (1755) included thousands upon thousands of illustrative quotations from the "Best" authors, and more recently, Thomas Hollis (1720-1774), the much less well-known bibliophile who sent gifts of books by a pantheon of Whig authors to individuals and libraries in Britain, Protestant bastions in continental Europe, and America. Between the covers of Words, Books, Images readers will encounter canonical English authors of prose and poetry-Bacon, Milton, Defoe, Dryden, Pope, Richardson, Swift, Byron, Mary Shelley, and Lear. But they will also become acquainted with the agents of their canonization and commemoration-the printers and publishers of Grub Street, the biographer John Aubrey, the lexicographer and biographer Johnson, the bibliophile Hollis, and the portrait painter Reynolds. No less crucially, they will meet fellow readers of then and now-women and men who peruse, poach, snip, and savour a book's every word and image"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prelim pages
- Table of contents
- Series editor’s preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on authors
- Words, books, images, and the long eighteenth century
- Part I. Words
- Going feral
- John Dunton’s The Ladies Dictionary
- Samuel Johnson and the “Shackles of Lexicography”
- Edward Lear’s new words
- Part II. Words and books
- Battles of words and books
- “The pretious life-blood of a master spirit”
- Frankenstein and Romantic scrapbook culture
- Part III. Words, books, images
- The paper museum of John Aubrey
- Picturing the harmonious body in Richardson’s novels
- Authorial gestures
- Illustrating Byron’s Prisoner of Chillon
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Bevan Zlatar, Antoinina Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century
- ISBN:
- 9789027258441
- 9027258449
- OCLC:
- 1280407119
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