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| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | The mythology of Johnson's dictionary | 10 |
| 2 | Dictionaries and power from Palsgrave to Johnson | 24 |
| 3 | What Johnson's illustrative quotations illustrate : language and viewpoint in the dictionary | 42 |
| 4 | Reassessing the political context of the dictionary : Johnson and the "broad-bottom" opposition | 61 |
| 5 | Johnson's extempore history and grammar of the English language | 77 |
| 6 | Johnson the prescriptivist? : the case for the prosecution | 92 |
| 7 | Johnson the prescriptivist? : the case for the defense | 113 |
| 8 | Johnson's encyclopedia | 129 |
| 9 | The law, the alphabet, and Samuel Johnson | 147 |
| 10 | Hyphenated compounds in Johnson's dictionary | 160 |
| 11 | The typographic design of Johnson's dictionary | 175 |
| 12 | The dictionary in abstract : Johnson's abridgments of the dictionary of the English language for the common reader | 198 |
| 13 | Revision and the limits of collaboration : hands and texts in Johnson's dictionary | 212 |
| 14 | Hidden quarto editions of Johnson's dictionary | 228 |
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Nili Peri
reviewed Anniversary Essays on Johnson's Dictionary on November 18, 2018
Anniversary Essays on Johnson's Dictionary
We know that it's possible to write entertainingly about the process of writing a dictionary -- Simon Winchester has done it twice. Henry Hitchings doesn't have the knack. The word that comes to mind that best describes this book is "plodding".
The copy I bought was remaindered at $3.88. I can't say I was surprised.
A dull, pedestrian, aimless book. Though I dare say the scholarship was accurate.
Hitchings has recently come out with another book: "The Secret Life of Words". According to The New Yorker , "Hitchings offers a rich array of anecdotes and extracts, but the absence of a strong over-all argument deprives his account of momentum".
If you're looking for a present for the word addict on your holiday gift list, "Alphabet Juice", by Roy Blount Junior, looks to be a better bet (based on the first chapter, which I read in the New York Times).
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