Jonathan Swift's Word-book : a vocabulary compiled for Esther Johnson and copied in her own hand /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Johnson, Esther, 1681-1728 (Contribuidor), Elias, A. C. (Editor ), Fischer, John Irwin, 1940- (Editor ), Reid, Panthea
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : Lanham, Maryland : University of Delaware Press ; Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017]
Temas:
Swift, Jonathan, > 1667-1745 > Knowledge > Language and languages.
Swift, Jonathan, > 1667-1745.
1700-1799
English language > Dictionaries.
English language > 18th century.
Anglais (Langue) > Dictionnaires.
Anglais (Langue) > 18e siècle.
REFERENCE > Dictionaries.
English language.
Language and languages.
Dictionaries.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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

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