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A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
Volume III: 1859-1936
Julie Coleman
520 pages
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figures, tables
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234x156mm
978-0-19-954937-5
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Hardback
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23 October 2008
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- The first critical history of slang dictionaries
- International coverage
- Presents unique and fascinating insights on the leat visible elements of contemporary society
- Reveals changing attitudes to nationality, gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity, and age
This book continues Julie Coleman's acclaimed history of dictionaries of English slang and cant. It describes the increasingly systematic and scholarly way in which such terms were recorded and classified in the UK, the USA, Australia, and elsewhere, and the huge growth in the publication of and public appetite for dictionaries, glossaries, and guides to the distinctive vocabularies of different social groups, classes, districts, regions, and nations. Dr Coleman describes the origins of words and phrases and explores their history. By copious example she shows how they cast light on everyday life across the globe - from settlers
in Canada and Australia and cockneys in London to gang-members in New York and soldiers fighting in the Boer and First World Wars - as well as on the operations of the narcotics trade and the entertainment business and the lives of those attending American colleges and British public schools.
The slang lexicographers were a colourful bunch. Those featured in this book include spiritualists, aristocrats, socialists, journalists, psychiatrists, school-boys, criminals, hoboes, police officers, and a serial bigamist. One provided the inspiration for Robert Lewis Stevenson's Long John Silver. Another was allegedly killed by a pork pie.
Julie Coleman's account will interest historians of language, crime, poverty, sexuality, and the criminal
underworld.Readership: Historians of language, crime, poverty, sexuality, and the criminal underworld; lexigraphers; literary critics and historians of nineteenth-century English and American literature. General readers interested in slang
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Julie Coleman, University of Leicester
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"...Coleman's meticulous analysis uncovers a world of lexicographers who were often as colourful as the terms they were compiling...Coleman's research is carefully embedded in its relevant social framework, from the language of itinerant workers to that of criminals and school boys..." - Maria Taylor, Times Literary Supplement
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Introduction
1: John Camden Hotten
2: International Slang Dictionaries of the 1880s and 1890s
3: Farmer and Henley's Slang and its Analogues
4: Other British General Slang Dictionaries
5: British School and University Glossaries
6: Australian Slang Dictionaries
7: Dictionaries of General American Slang
8: American School and University Glossaries
9: Dictionaries of First World War Slang
10: Dictionaries of Homelessness
11: Dictionaries of Crime
12: Glossaries of the Entertainment Industries
Conclusion
Appendix
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