"This book uncovers how same-sex acts, desires, and identities have been represented in English dictionaries in Britain from the early modern to the interwar period. In doing so, it responds and contributes to established traditions and new trends in linguistics, queer theory, literary criticism, and the history of sexuality"--
"This book uncovers how same-sex acts, desires, and identities have been represented in English dictionaries in Britain from the early modern to the interwar period. In doing so, it responds and contributes to established traditions and new trends in linguistics, queer theory, literary criticism, and the history of sexuality"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Stephen Turton is a Research Fellow in English at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He writes and teaches on the history of English, lexicography, literature, and gender and sexuality. He is the co-editor of an ongoing project to digitize the letters of James A. H. Murray, the ¿rst chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (www.MurrayScriptorium.org).
Inhaltsangabe
List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes List of Abbreviations Introduction: Charting the Sexual and Lexical Outlands 1. Legislating Acts: The Limits of Buggery, Sodomy, and Copulation 2. Estranging English: The Centre of the Language and the Queer Frontier 3. Silencing Sex: Social Propriety and Lexical Censorship 4. Dissecting Matter: Odd Bodies in Medical Dictionaries 5. Taxonomizing Desire: Science and Sexuality in the Oxford English Dictionary Conclusion: Looking beyond the Queer and Now Appendix I: Anne Lister's Erotic Glossary Appendix II: Same-sex Definitions in Dictionaries, 1604-1933 References Index.
List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes List of Abbreviations Introduction: Charting the Sexual and Lexical Outlands 1. Legislating Acts: The Limits of Buggery, Sodomy, and Copulation 2. Estranging English: The Centre of the Language and the Queer Frontier 3. Silencing Sex: Social Propriety and Lexical Censorship 4. Dissecting Matter: Odd Bodies in Medical Dictionaries 5. Taxonomizing Desire: Science and Sexuality in the Oxford English Dictionary Conclusion: Looking beyond the Queer and Now Appendix I: Anne Lister's Erotic Glossary Appendix II: Same-sex Definitions in Dictionaries, 1604-1933 References Index.
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