Appearing for this first time in print, Word-Book is Swift’s dictionary of words and definitions for his protégé Esther Johnson. The volume includes photographs from and a transcript of the original book. Supplementing the transcript are the editors notations showing Swift’s corrections in Johnson’s text, essays comparing Swift’s dictionary to others available at that time and exploring the social and psychological milieu in which it was written, and detailed appendices.
| ISBN: | 9781611496550 |
| Publication date: | 31st August 2017 |
| Author: | Panthea Reid |
| Publisher: | University of Delaware Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 266 pages |
| Genres: |
Dictionaries Literary studies: general |