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Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century: Essays for Allen Reddick
Edited by Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, Mark Ittensohn, Enit Karafili Steiner and Olga Timofeeva
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 16] 2021
► pp. 59–79

Samuel Johnson and the “Shackles of Lexicography”

| Pembroke College, University of Oxford
Article outline
  • The dictionary-maker and the problems of desire
  • Shackled lexicography in practice
  • “Shackled” reading: evidence, authority, and lexicographical process
  • The productive challenge of constraint
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
Published online: 16 December 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.16.04mug
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