Books by Hans Aarsleff
“This is a really good introduction to the intellectual climate, what people thought about language.” Read more...
The best books on The Oxford English Dictionary
Peter Gilliver, Literary Scholar
Interviews where books by Hans Aarsleff were recommended
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Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary
by K. M. Elisabeth Murray -
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The Collected Papers of Henry Bradley
by Robert Bridges -
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
by Simon Winchester -
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The Study of Language in England, 1780-1860
by Hans Aarsleff -
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The Scholar's Daughter
by Beatrice Harraden
The best books on The Oxford English Dictionary, recommended by Peter Gilliver
The best books on The Oxford English Dictionary, recommended by Peter Gilliver
It’s a dictionary that seeks to document any word that exists—or ever existed—in the English language and track its evolution over time. Lexicographer Peter Gilliver chooses books to help understand the enormous undertaking that is the Oxford English Dictionary.
