Before the Word Was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary, 1600–1930

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Bringing 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.

By Stephen Turton (Author)

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History of sexuality in english language explained

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