The Whole World in a Book: Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780190913199 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 358 str.

Sarah Ogilvie; Gabriella Safran

Recenzje

The broad linguistic (and geographic) scope of the volume enables such a comprehensive overview and constitutes its distinct advantage.

O autorze

Sarah Ogilvie is Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics and at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, where she is also Director of the Dictionary Lab. Her publications include Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary (2013). Gabriella Safran is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies at Stanford University. She works in Russian and Yiddish literatures in the 19th and 20th centuries, and is the author of Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire (2000) and Wandering Soul: The Life of S. An-sky (2010).