Stephen Turton

Before the Word Was Queer

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781316518731
• ISBN-10: 1316518736
• Artikelnr.: 69036532

Autorenporträt

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.