Samuel Johnson and the “Shackles of Lexicography”

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Series editor’s preface ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Notes on authors xiii
6. Words, books, images, and the long eighteenth century 1
7. Part I. Words
8. Going feral 19
9. John Dunton’s The Ladies Dictionary 37
10. Samuel Johnson and the “Shackles of Lexicography” 59
11. Edward Lear’s new words 81
12. Part II. Words and books
13. Battles of words and books 103
14. “The pretious life-blood of a master spirit” 121
15. Frankenstein and Romantic scrapbook culture 151
16. Part III. Words, books, images
17. The paper museum of John Aubrey 171
18. Picturing the harmonious body in Richardson’s novels 189
19. Authorial gestures 207
20. Illustrating Byron’s Prisoner of Chillon 227
21. Index 247