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Academy dictionaries, 1600-1800
- Title
- Academy dictionaries, 1600-1800 / John Considine.
- Author
- Considine, John (John P.)
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- xi, 259 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This is the first unified history of the large, prestigious dictionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, compiled in academies, which set out to glorify living European languages. The tradition began with the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca (1612) in Florence and the Dictionnaire de l'Académie françoise (1694) in Paris, and spread across Europe - to Germany, Spain, England, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Russia - in the eighteenth century, engaging students of language as diverse as Leibniz, Samuel Johnson, and Catherine the Great. All the major academy and academy-style dictionaries of the period up to 1800, published and unpublished, are discussed in a single narrative, bridging national and linguistic boundaries, to offer a history of lexicography on a European scale. Like John Considine's Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2008), this study treats dictionaries both as physical books and as ambitious works of the human imagination"--
- Subjects
- Lexicography
- Learned institutions and societies
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Lexicography > Europe > History > 17th century
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries > Europe > History and criticism
- Europe
- History
- Learned institutions and societies > Europe > History > 17th century
- 1600 - 1799
- Learned institutions and societies > Europe > History > 18th century
- Lexicography > Europe > History > 18th century
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-250) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-6981
- ISBN
- 9781107071124 (hardback)
- 1107071127 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2014004087
- OCLC
- 871343749
- Author
- Considine, John (John P.), author.
- Title
- Academy dictionaries, 1600-1800 / John Considine.
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-250) and index.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1600 - 1799
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-6981