Before the Word Was Queer
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Before the Word Was Queer
Sexuality and the English Dictionary, 1600-1930
Turton, Stephen
Cambridge University Press
03/2024
350
Dura
Inglês
9781316518731
15 a 20 dias
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List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Charting the Sexual and Lexical Outlands; 1. Legislating Acts: The Limits of Buggery, Sodomy, and Copulation; 2. Estranging English: The Centre of the Language and the Queer Frontier; 3. Silencing Sex: Social Propriety and Lexical Censorship; 4. Dissecting Matter: Odd Bodies in Medical Dictionaries; 5. Taxonomizing Desire: Science and Sexuality in the Oxford English Dictionary; Conclusion: Looking beyond the Queer and Now; Appendix I: Anne Lister's Erotic Glossary; Appendix II: Same-sex Definitions in Dictionaries, 1604-1933; References; Index.
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List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Charting the Sexual and Lexical Outlands; 1. Legislating Acts: The Limits of Buggery, Sodomy, and Copulation; 2. Estranging English: The Centre of the Language and the Queer Frontier; 3. Silencing Sex: Social Propriety and Lexical Censorship; 4. Dissecting Matter: Odd Bodies in Medical Dictionaries; 5. Taxonomizing Desire: Science and Sexuality in the Oxford English Dictionary; Conclusion: Looking beyond the Queer and Now; Appendix I: Anne Lister's Erotic Glossary; Appendix II: Same-sex Definitions in Dictionaries, 1604-1933; References; Index.
