Read You Could Look It Up Online
Authors: Jack Lynch
10.
See Collison,
History of Foreign-Language Dictionaries
, pp. 79–88; Hartmann,
History of Lexicography
, pp. 13–14; and Considine,
Academy Dictionaries
, chap. 3.
11.
See Stein,
English Dictionary
; Starnes and Noyes,
English Dictionary
; and Considine,
Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe
, pp. 156–202.
12.
See Considine,
Academy Dictionaries
, chap. 6.
13.
Spingarn,
Critical Essays
, 2:328 and 311; Hume, “Of Liberty and Despotism,” in
Essays
, p. 179; Warburton, preface, 1:clxii.
14.
Boswell,
Life
, 1:186.
15.
Johnson,
Works
, 18:87–88.
16.
Johnson,
Works
, 18:105.
17.
Boswell,
Life
, 1:300.
18.
Johnson,
Works
, 18:105, 102.
CHAPTER 10
½: OF GHOSTS AND MOUNTWEAZELS
1.
Skeat, “Report upon ‘Ghost-Words,’ ” p. 352.
2.
Skeat, “Report upon ‘Ghost-Words,’ ” pp. 352–53.
3.
Gove, “History of ‘Dord’,” pp. 136–38.
4.
Liesemer, “Scherzeinträge in Lexika.”
5.
Liesemer, “Scherzeinträge in Lexika.”
6.
Jacobs,
Know It All
, p. 128.
7.
Alford, “Not a Word.”
8.
Nester’s Map & Guide Corp. v. Hagstrom Map Co., No. 90
CV
1086, 796 F.Supp. 729 (1992).
CHAPTER 11
: THE WAY OF FAITH
1.
Cruden,
Complete Concordance
, sig. a1
r
.
2.
Merbecke,
Concordance
, sig. aii
v
.
3.
Cruden,
Complete Concordance
, sig. a1
r
.
4.
Olivier,
Alexander the Corrector
, p. 57.
5.
Cruden,
Complete Concordance
, sig. a2
v
.
CHAPTER 11
½: WHO’S WHO AND WHAT’S WHAT
1.
Landau,
Dictionaries
, p. 87.
2.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/help/faq/words_in.htm
.
3.
Stamper, “Dear Merriam Webster.”
CHAPTER 12
: EROTIC RECREATIONS
1.
Song of Solomon
4:1–5.
2.
“Kama Sutra,” episode of the podcast
In Our Time
, February 2, 2012.
3.
Phillips,
Mysteries of Love & Eloquence
, sig. A6
v
.
4.
See Fissell, “Making a Masterpiece,” p. 59.
5.
Aristotle’s Master-Piece
, sig. A3
r
, p. 1.
6.
Aristotle’s Master-Piece
, pp. 98–99.
7.
Aristotle’s Master-Piece
, sig. A4
v
.
8.
Aristotle’s Master-Piece
, pp. 6, 10, 9.
9.
Aristotle’s Master-Piece
, sig. A4
r
, p. 1.
10.
Aristotle’s Master-Piece
, pp. 2, 91, 23, 109.
11.
Clark, “Female Sexuality,” p. 66.
12.
Fissell, “Making a Masterpiece,” pp. 60–61.
13.
Slade,
Pornography and Sexual Representation
, 1:40.
14.
Joyce,
Ulysses
, pp. 193, 635.
15.
See
http://huntingtonblogs.org/2015/04/aristotles-masterpiece/
.
16.
Rubenhold makes the case for Derrick’s involvement, though Freeman replies that “there is no evidence firmly associating Derrick” with the pamphlet (“Jack Harris and ‘Honest Ranger,’ ” p. 431).
17.
Denlinger, “Garment and the Man,” p. 357.
18.
Denlinger, “Garment and the Man,” p. 371.
19.
Freeman, “Jack Harris and ‘Honest Ranger,’ ” p. 425.
20.
Denlinger, “Garment and the Man,” p. 358.
21.
Freeman, “Jack Harris and ‘Honest Ranger,’ ” pp. 423–33, 446, 455.
22.
Freeman, “Jack Harris and ‘Honest Ranger,’ ” p. 423.
23.
Krafft-Ebing,
Psychopathia Sexualis
, p. v.
CHAPTER 12
½: THE BOYS’ CLUB
1.
Blount,
Glossographia
, sig. A5
v
.
2.
N.H.,
Ladies Dictionary
, sig. A2
v
.
3.
N.H.,
Ladies Dictionary
, sig. A2
r
.
4.
Sears,
Female’s Encyclopædia
, p. 276.
5.
Sears,
Female’s Encyclopædia
, p. 213.
6.
Betham,
Biographical Dictionary
, p. v.
7.
Morozov, “Edit This Page.”
CHAPTER 13
: COLLECTING KNOWLEDGE INTO THE SMALLEST AREAS
1.
Anon, Review of
The English Cyclopædia
, p. 191. Zedler’s work influenced the
Encyclopédie
: see Lough,
Encyclopédie
, p. 5.
2.
Kafker,
Notable Encyclopedias
, p. 123.
3.
Sheldon, “Pierre Bayle,” p. 385.
4.
See Stockwell,
History of Information Storage and Retrieval
, p. 50.
5.
Kafker,
Notable Encyclopedias
, p. 98.
6.
Aycock, “Lord Byron and Bayle’s ‘Dictionary,’ ” p. 143.
7.
Koning, “Onward and Upward with the Arts,” p. 67.
8.
D’Alembert,
Preliminary Discourse
, pp. xiii, xv.
9.
D’Alembert,
Preliminary Discourse
, p. xxv.
10.
Manguel,
Library at Night
, p. 84.
11.
D’Alembert,
Preliminary Discourse
, p. xxxii.
12.
D’Alembert,
Preliminary Discourse
, p. 40.
13.
D’Alembert,
Preliminary Discourse
, p. 47.
14.
Schwab,
Inventory of Diderot
, pp. 21, 36.
15.
Lough,
Encyclopédie
, p. 1.
16.
D’Alembert,
Preliminary Discourse
, p. 72.
17.
Koning, “Onward and Upward,” p. 67.
18.
Koning, “Onward and Upward,” p. 67. On
droit naturel
,
autorité politique
, and related entries, see Lough,
Encyclopédie
, chap. 8, and Blom,
Encyclopédie
, pp. 145–46, 171.
19.
Kafker,
Notable Encyclopedias
, p. 110.
20.
See Kafker and Loveland,
Early “Britannica,”
pp. 6–7; Kogan,
Great EB
, p. 9.
21.
Kafker, “Smellie’s Edition,” p. 148;
Proposals for Printing, by Subscription, a Work, Intitled, Encyclopædia Britannica; or, A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Composed in the Form of Distinct Treatises or Systems
(Edinburgh, 1768).
22.
Kerr,
Memoirs
, 1:362–63; Kogan,
Great EB
, p. 10; Kafker, “Smellie’s Edition,” p. 150.
23.
Kafker, “Smellie’s Edition,” p. 151.
24.
Encyclopædia Britannica
, 1st ed., p. v.
25.
Kerr,
Memoirs of … William Smellie
, 1:63.
26.
Kafker, “Smellie’s Edition,” pp. 170–71.
27.
Kafker, “Smellie’s Edition,” p. 175.
28.
Kafker, “Smellie’s Edition,” p. 180.
29.
Kogan,
Great EB
, p. 50.
CHAPTER 13
½: DICTIONARY OR ENCYCLOPEDIA?
1.
Morton,
Story of Webster’s Third
, p. 6.
CHAPTER 14
: OF REDHEADS AND BABUS
1.
Berrera,
Abecedario
.
2.
See Burns,
Science in the Enlightenment
, p. 145.
3.
Cullen,
History of Japan
, p. 131.
4.
Nagashima, “Bilingual Lexicography with Japanese,” p. 3114.
5.
Cullen,
History of Japan
, p. 132.
6.
Yule,
Memoir
, p. 41.
7.
See, for instance,
Traveller’s Library
, p. 244.
8.
Athenæum
3062 (July 3, 1886): 7.
9.
Campion, “Hobson-Jobson.”
10.
Reddy, “Ghazipur and Patna Opium Factories,” p. 61.
11.
Rushdie, “Hobson-Jobson.”
12.
Livingstone, “How We Got Pukka.”
CHAPTER 14
½: A SMALL ARMY
1.
Van Doren, “Idea of an Encyclopedia,” p. 25.
2.
Kafker, “William Smellie’s Edition of the
Encyclopaedia Britannica
,” in Kafker,
Notable Encyclopedias
, p. 149.
3.
New International Encyclopædia
, s.v. encyclopædia.
CHAPTER 15
: KILLING TIME
1.
Hoyle,
Short Treatise
, p. iii.
2.
Hoyle,
Short Treatise
, pp. 4, 11, 16.
3.
Hoyle,
Hoyle’s Games Improved
, p. 154.
4.
Hoyle,
Essay
, p. 46.
5.
Hoyle,
Essay
, p. 71.
6.
Hoyle,
Essay
, pp. 72–73.
7.
Hoyle,
Essay
, p. 73.
8.
Hoyle,
Short Treatise
, title page.
9.
Hoyle,
Short Treatise on the Game of Back-Gammon
, title page.
10.
Humours of Whist
, p. 5.
11.
Fielding,
Tom Jones
, part 13, chap. 5.
12.
Johnson,
Works
, 3:81, 85.
13.
The phrase appears in
Walker’s Hibernian Magazine
for 1786.
14.
Brown,
Bath
, 2:187.
15.
Englishman in Paris
, 1:147.
16.
Chambers,
Book of Days
, 2:282.
17.
Hoyle,
Hoyle’s Games Improved
, pp. 211, 215.
18.
Winder,
Little Wonder
, p. 32.
19.
Quoted in Haigh,
Silent Revolutions
, p. 131.
20.
Haigh,
Silent Revolutions
, p. 130.
21.
Haigh,
Silent Revolutions
, p. 126.
22.
Winder,
Little Wonder
, p. 40.
23.
Kidd, “Don’t Stop Now Is the Message.”
24.
Winder,
Little Wonder
, pp. x, xiv.
25.
Brown, “Stumped No More.”
26.
Kidd, “150-Year Run.”
CHAPTER 15
½: OUT OF PRINT
1.
Flanagan, “
RIP
for
OED
.”
2.
Jacobs, “I Read the Encyclopaedia Britannica.”
3.
Rosalia, “Students Should Not Abandon Print Research.”
4.
Ayers, “If You Liked
Britannica
.”
CHAPTER 16
: MONUMENTS OF ERUDITION
1.
Collison,
History of Foreign-Language Dictionaries
, p. 93; see also Considine,
Academy Dictionaries
, pp. 151–57.