Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century: Essays for Allen Reddick

by Antoinina Bevan Zlatar

Book Overview

The essays collected in this volume engage in a conversation among lexicography, the culture of the book, and the canonization and commemoration of English literary figures and their works in the long eighteenth century. The source of inspiration for each piece is Allen Reddick's scholarship on Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), the great English lexicographer whose Dictionary (1755) included thousands upon thousands of illustrative quotations from the "best"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027210632
• ISBN13: 9789027210630
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 252 Pages