Before the Word was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary, 1600–1930 by Stephen Turton

Before the Word was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary, 1600–1930

Stephen Turton

333 pages first pub 2024 (view editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+
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Bringing together research from queer linguistics and lexicography, this book uncovers how same-sex acts, desires, and identities have been represented in English dictionaries published in Britain from the early modern to the inter-war period. Mov...

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