Following the discovery of manuscript materials, including hundreds of unpublished additions and changes, for Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, Allen Reddick describes the conception, composition, writing, and subsequent revision of the first great English dictionary, and the only dictionary created by a great writer. In this second edition of his acclaimed study, Reddick incorporates new commentary and scholarship, and situates The Making of Johnson's Dictionary in current critical and scholarly debate.
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"...a major contribution to Johnsonian studies sure to endure the test of time." Eighteenth-Century Studies
"...a fascinating and wonderful piece of scholarly detective work....The chapter that Reddick bases solely on his new discoveries....is as good a single chapter as anyone has written in any book on Johnson of the last thirty years." The Age of Johnson
"An important, exact, and fascinating book." Bibliographical Society of America
"...a fascinating and wonderful piece of scholarly detective work....The chapter that Reddick bases solely on his new discoveries....is as good a single chapter as anyone has written in any book on Johnson of the last thirty years." The Age of Johnson
"An important, exact, and fascinating book." Bibliographical Society of America
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This second edition of an acclaimed study incorporates new commentary and scholarship, and situates The Making of Johnson's Dictionary in current critical and scholarly debate. It describes the conception, composition, writing, and subsequent revision of the first great English dictionary.
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JOHNSON'S GREAT Dictionary of the English Language, virtually from its inception, has represented a contribution not only to English letters and lexicography, but also to English literary and heroic myth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Paradise Lost, Johnson's Dictionary, British Library, Church of England, Lord Chesterfield, Edward Young, Anglican Church, Cruden's Concordance, Samuel Johnson, William Law, Gentleman's Magazine, Alexander Pope, Francis Barber, House of Commons, Peter Heylyn, Robert Dodsley, Thomas Warton, Henry Hammond, Hester Thrale, John Kettlewell, John Pearson, Tavern Petition, William Perkins, Francis Stewart, Holy Ghost New!
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JOHNSON'S GREAT Dictionary of the English Language, virtually from its inception, has represented a contribution not only to English letters and lexicography, but also to English literary and heroic myth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
recycled quotations, first edition sheets, abandoned manuscript, interleaved sheets, new quotations, marking quotations, poetical eye, annotated materials, illustrative quotations, verbal index, other dictionaries, added quotations, great forwardness, marked books, dictionary text, new illustrations, text comprising Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Paradise Lost, Johnson's Dictionary, British Library, Church of England, Lord Chesterfield, Edward Young, Anglican Church, Cruden's Concordance, Samuel Johnson, William Law, Gentleman's Magazine, Alexander Pope, Francis Barber, House of Commons, Peter Heylyn, Robert Dodsley, Thomas Warton, Henry Hammond, Hester Thrale, John Kettlewell, John Pearson, Tavern Petition, William Perkins, Francis Stewart, Holy Ghost New!
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- The Life of Samuel Johnson: A Critical Biography (Blackwell Critical Biographies) by Robert Demaria in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism by J. C. D. Clark on page 74, and page 211
- Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by Steven H. Gale on page 593
- Cheap Bibles: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the British and Foreign Bible Society (Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History) by Leslie Howsam in Front Matter
- Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, their Books and Bindings by Anthony Hobson in Back Cover
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