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Before the Word Was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary, 1600-1930

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Before the Word Was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary, 1600-1930 - Turton, Stephen
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"This book uncovers how same-sex acts, desires, and identities have been represented in English dictionaries in Britain from the early modern to the interwar period. In doing so, it responds and contributes to established traditions and new trends in linguistics, queer theory, literary criticism, and the history of sexuality"--

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Before the Word Was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary, 1600-1930 2024, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781316518731

Hardcover