Blackwood's Magazine, 1817-25, Volume 3

Blackwood's Magazine, 1817-25, Volume 3
Author: Nicholas Mason
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2023-01-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000887960

Contextualizes and annotates the influential, scandalous, and entertaining texts which appeared in the Blackwood's Magazine between 1817 and 1825. This title features a detailed general introduction, volume introductions and endnotes, providing the reader with an understanding of the origins and early history of Blackwood's Magazine.

Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots

Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots
Author: Susan Rennie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2012-06-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0191623695

This is the first full account of the making of John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language. The dictionary was published in two volumes in 1808, with a two-volume Supplement following in 1825. Lists of Scots words had been compiled before, but Jamieson's was the first complete dictionary of the language. It was a landmark in the development of historical lexicography and was an inspiration for later lexicographers, including Sir James Murray, founding editor of the OED. Susan Rennie's account of Jamieson's work and the methods he developed interweaves biography, lexicography, and linguistic, social, and book history to present a rounded account of the man, his work, and his times. It is the first study to draw on Jamieson's correspondence and the surviving manuscript materials for the Dictionary and Supplement to reveal Jamieson's working methods and the important contributions made by Sir Walter Scott and others to his work.