The Whole World in a Book
Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century
Nineteenth-century readers had an appetite for books so big they seemed to contain the whole world: immense novels, series of novels, encyclopaedias. Especially in Eurasia and North America, especially among the middle and upper classes, people had the space, time, and energy for very long books. More than other multi-volume nineteenth-century collections, the dictionaries, or their descendants of the same name, remain with us in the twenty-first century. Online or on paper, people still consult Oxford for British English, Webster for American, Grimm for German, Littré for French, Dahl for Russian. Even in spaces whose literary languages alre…
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Weitere Autoren: Safran, Gabriella (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-091320-5
- EAN: 9780190913205
- Produktnummer: 33095385
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 27'338 KB
- Abbildungen: 13 illustrations
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Sarah Ogilvie is Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics and at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, where she is also Director of the Dictionary Lab. Her publications include Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary (2013).Gabriella Safran is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies at Stanford University. She works in Russian and Yiddish literatures in the 19th and 20th centuries, and is the author of Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire (2000) and Wandering Soul: The Life of S. An-sky (2010).
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