A dictionary of sexual language and imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart literature / / Gordon Williams

• Autore: Williams Gordon <1935->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey : , : Athlone Press, , 1994
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1649 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/3538/09031
• Soggetto topico: English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700; English language - Early modern, 1500-1700; Sex symbolism; Sex in literature; Sex; Figures of speech; Erotic literature, English
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; How to use the Dictionary; Abbreviations; Volume I: A-F; Volume II: G-P; Volume III: Q-Z; Bibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: A dictionary of sexual language and imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart literature
• ISBN: 1-281-29166-8; 9786611291662; 1-84714-256-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777717503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Athlone Shakespeare Dictionary