Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers

Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers
Author: Anne C. McDermott
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 135187022X

The eighteenth century is renowned for the publication of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language, which reference sources still call the first English dictionary. This collection demonstrates the inaccuracy of that claim, but its tenacity in the public mind testifies to how decisively Johnson formed our sense of what a dictionary is. The essays and articles in this volume examine the already flourishing tradition of English lexicography from which Johnson drew, as represented by Kersey, Bailey, and Martin, as well as the flourishing contemporary trade in encyclopedic, technical, pronunciation, and bilingual lexicons.

Teeth and Talons Whetted for Slaughter

Teeth and Talons Whetted for Slaughter
Author: Piet Slootweg
Publisher: Summum Academic
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2022-04-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9492701421

Is a life cycle that depends on eating or being eaten compatible with a creation in which 'the heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims His handiwork'? Are animal death and extinction manifestations of a good God's majesty and power? When creating the world, did God use animal death and extinction as a means to realize his intentions? This study challenges the view that the emergence and acceptance of the theory of evolution brought a break in thinking about animal suffering in a good creation. Even before Darwin, people thought about animal suffering, about how God's goodness and good creation related to this, and about whether animals were already subject to death in paradise. Historically, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution did not form a watershed in the debate about animal suffering, nor did concerns about animal suffering only emerge with the Darwinian theory of evolution.

The Bewick Collector

The Bewick Collector
Author: Thomas Hugo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2013-04-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1108057241

A two-volume catalogue (1866-8) of influential wood engravings attributed to Thomas Bewick and his younger brother John.

Disciplined Subjects

Disciplined Subjects
Author: Sutapa Dutta
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2020-12-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000331164

This book examines interactions between Britain and India through the analytical framework of the production and circulation of knowledge throughout the long eighteenth century. Disciplined Subjects is one of the first works to analyse the imperial school curriculum, and the ways in which it shaped and influenced Indian subjectivity. The author focuses on the endeavours of the colonial government, missionaries and native stakeholders in determining the physical, material and intellectual content of institutional learning in India. Further, the volume compares the changes in pedagogical practices, and textbooks in schools in Britain and colonial Bengal, and its subsequent repercussions on the psyche and identity of the learners. Drawing on a host of primary sources in the UK and India, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern history, education, sociology and South Asian studies.