{"product_id":"before-the-word-was-queer-sexuality-and-the-english-dictionary-1600-1930-hardback-9781316518731","title":"Before the Word Was Queer; Sexuality and the English Dictionary, 1600–1930 (Hardback) 9781316518731","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBefore the Word Was Queer\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSexuality and the English Dictionary, 1600–1930\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book uncovers how same-sex sexuality has been represented in English dictionaries from the early modern to the interwar period.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStephen Turton (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781316518731, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 March 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e350 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 2.4 cm, 0.66 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Stephen Turton's lively book is a wonderfully rich mine of forgotten sexual slang, … its great strength lies in a generative interweaving of the histories of words and sex, its recognition that dictionary-makers and users are actors in the construction of social and sexual identities. As dictionaries get better at capturing discursively how we talk about ourselves today, they remain a standout resource in our exploration of the way our queer forebears understood themselves in the past.' Will Tosh, The Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBringing together research from queer linguistics and lexicography, this book uncovers how same-sex acts, desires, and identities have been represented in English dictionaries published in Britain from the early modern to the inter-war period. Moving across time – from the appearance of the first standalone English dictionary to the completion of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary – and shuttling across genres – from general usage, hard words, thieves' cant, and slang to law, medicine, classical myth, women's biography, and etymology – it asks how dictionary-writers made sense of same-sex intimacy, and how they failed or refused to make sense of it. It also queries how readers interacted with dictionaries' constructions of sexual morality, against the broader backdrop of changing legal, religious, and scientific institutions. In answering these questions, the book responds and contributes to established traditions and new trends in linguistics, queer theory, literary criticism, and the history of sexuality.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e List of Tables\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Charting the Sexual and Lexical Outlands\u003cbr\u003e 1. Legislating Acts: The Limits of Buggery, Sodomy, and Copulation\u003cbr\u003e 2. Estranging English: The Centre of the Language and the Queer Frontier\u003cbr\u003e 3. Silencing Sex: Social Propriety and Lexical Censorship\u003cbr\u003e 4. Dissecting Matter: Odd Bodies in Medical Dictionaries\u003cbr\u003e 5. Taxonomizing Desire: Science and Sexuality in the Oxford English Dictionary\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Looking beyond the Queer and Now\u003cbr\u003e Appendix I: Anne Lister's Erotic Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Appendix II: Same-sex Definitions in Dictionaries, 1604–1933\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociolinguistics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociolinguistics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociolinguistics%20%5BCFB%5D%22\"\u003eCFB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52502944874776,"sku":"9781316518731","price":91.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781316518731i.jpg?v=1786320190","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/before-the-word-was-queer-sexuality-and-the-english-dictionary-1600-1930-hardback-9781316518731","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}