History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries, Volume III [electronic resource] : 1859-1936
Coleman, Julie.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2008.
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 theorigins of words and phrases and explores their history. By copious example she shows how they cast light on everyday li
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Abbreviations and Typological Conventions; Introduction; 1: John Camden Hotten; Hotten's Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (1859); The second edition of Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1860); 'Illustrations of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words' (1864) and 'Slang Phrases' (1878); The third edition of Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1865); Charles Nordhoff's 'Thieves' Jargon' (1865); The fourth edition of Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1872); The fifth edition of Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1874); Conclusions
2: International Slang Dictionaries of the 1880s and 1890sHeinrich Baumann's Londinismen. Slang und Cant (1887); Albert Barrère's Argot and Slang (1887) and, with Charles Leland, his Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant (1889-90); Karl Lentzner's, Colonial English (1891); Conclusions; 3: Farmer and Henley's Slang and its Analogues; John Stephen Farmer and William Ernest Henley's Slang and its Analogues, Past and Present (1890-1904); The revised first volume (1903, 1909); Henry Cary's The Slang of Venery and its Analogues (1916); Conclusions; 4: Other British General Slang Dictionaries
Charles Hindley's The True History of Tom and Jerry (1888)'Degenerates' Slang Glossary' (1900); James Redding Ware's Passing English of the Victorian Era (1909); Leo Pavia's 'Die männliche Homosexualität in England' (1910); Arthur H. Dawson's A Dictionary of English Slang and Colloquialisms (1913); A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English (1921); Encyclopædia Britannica glossary of British Slang (1929); 'U's Slang Glossary for British Parts in Talkers' (1929); 'Phillips' Rhyming Slang. A Concise Dictionary (1931/2) and the anonymous Dictionary of Rhyming Slang (1945)
Eric Partridge Slang Today and Yesterday: the English list (1933)Conclusions; 5: British School and University Glossaries; Guide to Eton (1860 and 1861); Robert Blachford Mansfield's School Life at Winchester College (1866); William Blanch's The Blue-Coat Boys (1877); George Nugent-Bankes's A Day of My Life (1877); Henry Adams's Wykehamica (1878); Charles Pascoe's Everyday Life in Our Public Schools (1881); Jamieson Baillie's Walter Crighton (1890); Robert Wrench's Winchester Word-Book (1891 and 1901); John Stephen Farmer's Public School Word-Book (1900)
Winchester College Notions (1901 and 1910)Christopher Stone's The Eton Glossary (1902); T. N.'s 'School Slang at Rossall' (1907); Augustus Francis's Christ's Hospital Sixty Years Ago (1918); Edmund Blunden's Christ's Hospital. A Retrospect (1923); Frederick Parker's Floreat, an Eton Anthology (1923); 'Dictionary of Bootham Slang' (1925); John Ainsworth Morgan's Oxford Observations (1925)  Oskar Teichman's The Cambridge Undergraduate of 100 Years Ago (1926); Oskar Teichman's The Cambridge Undergraduate of 100 Years Ago (1926)
William La Touche's Christ's Hospital from a Boy's Point of View (1928)
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 theorigins of words and phrases and explores their history. By copious example she shows how they cast light on everyday li
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cant -- Great Britain -- Lexicography.
English language -- Lexicography -- History.
English language -- Slang -- Lexicography.
Lexicography -- Great Britain.
English
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