Academy Dictionaries 1600-1800

Informationen zum Autor John Considine is Professor of English at the University of Alberta, Canada. He is author of Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe: Lexicography and the Making of Heritage (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and is co-editor, with Sylvia Brown, of The Ladies Dictionary (1694) (2010). Klappentext A comprehensive account of dictionaries during a key period in their development, when they were compiled in academies across Europe. Zusammenfassung Academy dictionaries - most dictionaries compiled between 1600 and 1800 - analysed for the first time the developing literary languages of Europe. This interdisciplinary study! covering texts from Italy! France! Germany! Spain! England! Scandinavia! the Netherlands! Portugal! and Russia! traces their history and their importance to language and culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The beginnings of the academy tradition: the Vocabolario degli accademici della Crusca; 3. The making of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie, and its seventeenth-century rivals; 4. The Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise from its publication to the end of the eighteenth century; 5. The Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft and its offshoots in Germany and Denmark from the 1640s to the mid-eighteenth century; 6. The academy tradition from the seventeenth century to 1750: England, Brandenburg / Prussia, and Spain; 7. Samuel Johnson and Johann Christoph Adelung; 8. The continuing academy tradition from 1751 to 1800: the United Provinces, Russia, Portugal, Denmark, and Sweden; 9. Afterword: the year 1800 as a turning point; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: John Considine, Professor John Considine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781107415126
• ISBN: 978-1-107-41512-6
• No. of pages: 271
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Europe, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Literature & literary studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, C 1700 To C 1800, Publishing industry and journalism, Publishing industry & book trade, Biography, Literature and Literary studies