Author: Robert DeMaria
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807842010
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Although the Dictionary is primarily a philological work, DeMaria shows how it also serves literary, moral, and educational purposes. By analyzing the content of the 116,000 illustrative quotations used by Johnson, the author illuminates the major
Johnson's Dictionary and the Language of Learning
Author: Robert DeMaria
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807842010
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Although the Dictionary is primarily a philological work, DeMaria shows how it also serves literary, moral, and educational purposes. By analyzing the content of the 116,000 illustrative quotations used by Johnson, the author illuminates the major
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807842010
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Although the Dictionary is primarily a philological work, DeMaria shows how it also serves literary, moral, and educational purposes. By analyzing the content of the 116,000 illustrative quotations used by Johnson, the author illuminates the major
A Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
Book Description
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Johnson's Dictionary and the Language of Learning
Author: Robert DeMaria
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Defining the World
Author: Henry Hitchings
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429928948
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Sensing the deficit, and impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath Samuel Johnson embraced the task, turning over the garret of his London home to the creation of his own giant dictionary. Johnson imagined that he could complete the job in three years. But the complexity of English meant that his estimate was wildly inadequate. Only after he had expended nearly a decade of his prime on the task did the dictionary finally appear - magisterial yet quirky, dogmatic but generous of spirit, and steeped in the richness of English literature. It would come to be seen as the most important British cultural monument of the eighteenth century, and its influence fanned out across Europe and throughout Britain's colonies - including, crucially, America. Brilliantly entertaining and enlightening, Defining the World is the story of Johnson's heroic endeavor, 250 years after the first publication of the Dictionary. In alphabetically sequenced chapters, Henry Hitchings describes Johnson's adventure - his ambition and vision, his moments of despair, the mistakes he made along the way, and his ultimate triumph.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429928948
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Sensing the deficit, and impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath Samuel Johnson embraced the task, turning over the garret of his London home to the creation of his own giant dictionary. Johnson imagined that he could complete the job in three years. But the complexity of English meant that his estimate was wildly inadequate. Only after he had expended nearly a decade of his prime on the task did the dictionary finally appear - magisterial yet quirky, dogmatic but generous of spirit, and steeped in the richness of English literature. It would come to be seen as the most important British cultural monument of the eighteenth century, and its influence fanned out across Europe and throughout Britain's colonies - including, crucially, America. Brilliantly entertaining and enlightening, Defining the World is the story of Johnson's heroic endeavor, 250 years after the first publication of the Dictionary. In alphabetically sequenced chapters, Henry Hitchings describes Johnson's adventure - his ambition and vision, his moments of despair, the mistakes he made along the way, and his ultimate triumph.
Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781511931311
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
"Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language" from Samuel Johnson. English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer (1709-1784).
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781511931311
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
"Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language" from Samuel Johnson. English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer (1709-1784).
Anniversary Essays on Johnson's Dictionary
Author: John T. Lynch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521848442
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A collection of original essays celebrating the 250th anniversary of the publication of the Dictionary.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521848442
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A collection of original essays celebrating the 250th anniversary of the publication of the Dictionary.