Seeing the Rebel: Or, How to Do Things with Dictionaries in Nineteenth-Century America

[...]the history of ideas is often the history of superseded obviousnesses, and Dwight's perception of what the English language verifies about the English people is useful evidence for the argument I'm making in my book about language and identity at the beginning of the nineteenth centur...

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Published in:J19 2014-03, Vol.2 (1), p.2-13
Main Author: Cassedy, Tim
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
19th century
Dictionaries
English
Handwriting
Historical text analysis
Inscriptions
Language
Language history
Reading
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