Women and Dictionary-Making

Women and Dictionary-Making
Author: Lindsay Rose Russell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2018-04-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1316953548

Dictionaries are a powerful genre, perceived as authoritative and objective records of the language, impervious to personal bias. But who makes dictionaries shapes both how they are constructed and how they are used. Tracing the craft of dictionary making from the fifteenth century to the present day, this book explores the vital but little-known significance of women and gender in the creation of English language dictionaries. Women worked as dictionary patrons, collaborators, readers, compilers, and critics, while gender ideologies served, at turns, to prevent, secure, and veil women's involvements and innovations in dictionary making. Combining historical, rhetorical, and feminist methods, this is a monumental recovery of six centuries of women's participation in dictionary making and a robust investigation of how the social life of the genre is influenced by the social expectations of gender.

Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy

Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy
Author: Orianne Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2013-03-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107027063

This book challenges our current critical understanding of the relations between gender, genre, and literary authority in this period.

The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821;

The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821;
Author: Hester Lynch Piozzi
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781376820294

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Bluestockings Displayed

Bluestockings Displayed
Author: Elizabeth Eger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2013-11-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0521768802

The first academic and interdisciplinary volume exploring bluestocking portraiture, performance and patronage in eighteenth-century Britain, opening vistas for future scholarship.