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UNINA9910777717503321 |
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Autore |
Williams Gordon <1935-> |
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Titolo |
A dictionary of sexual language and imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart literature / / Gordon Williams |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey : , : Athlone Press, , 1994 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-29166-8 |
9786611291662 |
1-84714-256-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1649 p.) |
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Collana |
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Athlone Shakespeare Dictionary |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 |
English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 |
Sex symbolism |
Sex in literature |
Sex |
Figures of speech |
Erotic literature, English |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction; How to use the Dictionary; Abbreviations; Volume I: A-F; Volume II: G-P; Volume III: Q-Z; Bibliography |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illumi |
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