37.969, Books: Before the Word Was Queer: Turton (2024)

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Date: 05-Mar-2026
From: Paris West [paris.west at cambridge.org]
Subject: Before the Word Was Queer: Turton (2024)


Title: Before the Word Was Queer
Subtitle: Sexuality and the English Dictionary, 1600–1930
Series Title: Stephen Turton
Publication Year: 2024

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/9781316518731

Author(s): Stephen Turton

Hardback ISBN: 9781316518731 Price: £105 GBP $135 USD

Abstract:

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.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Ling & Literature
                     Sociolinguistics

Written In: English (eng)



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