In:Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century: Essays for Allen Reddick
Edited by Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, Mark Ittensohn, Enit Karafili Steiner and Olga Timofeeva
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 16] 2021
► pp. 59–79
Samuel Johnson and the “Shackles of Lexicography”
Published online: 16 December 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.16.04mug
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.16.04mug
Article outline
- The dictionary-maker and the problems of desire
- Shackled lexicography in practice
- “Shackled” reading: evidence, authority, and lexicographical process
- The productive challenge of constraint
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