The Whole World in a Book

Sarah Ogilvie is Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics and at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, where she is also Director of the Dictionary Lab. Her publications include Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary (2013).Gabriella Safran is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies at Stanford University. She works in Russian and Yiddish literatures in the 19th and 20th centuries, and is the author of Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire (2000) and Wandering Soul: The Life of S. An-sky (2010).

• Introduction Sarah Ogilvie and Gabriella Safran 1. The Unfinished Business of Eighteenth-Century European Lexicography John Considine 2. Foreign Interests: Nineteenth-Century Lexicography in Russia and Japan Brian Kim 3. The Lexical Object: Richardson's New Dictionary of the English Language (1836-1837) Michael Adams 4. A Nineteenth-Century Garment Throughout: Description, Collaboration, and Thorough Coverage in the Oxford English Dictionary (1884-1928) Sarah Ogilvie 5. Between Science and Romanticism: The Deutsches Wörterbuch of the Brothers Grimm Volker Harm 6. Joost Halbertsma and the Lexicon Frisicum Anne Dykstra 7. The First Scottish 'National' Dictionary: John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language (1808/1825) Susan Rennie 8. French Lexicography in Québec: The Works and Ideas of Oscar Dunn Wim Remysen and Nadine Vincent 9. Christian Nationalism in Noah Webster's Lexicography Edward Finegan 10. The Invention of the Modern Dictionary: Webster's Unabridged of 1864 Peter Sokolowski 11. Lord of the Words: Vladimir Dahl's Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great-Russian Language as a National Epic Ilya Vinitsky 12. Lexicography of the Entrenched Empire: Banihûn's and Pu-gong's Manchu-Chinese Literary Ocean (1821) Mårten Söderblom Saarela 13. Steingass's Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary and the Rise and Fall of Persian as a Transregional Language Walter Hakala 14. Sharper Tools: Missionary Women's Lexicography in Asia Lindsay Rose Russell 15. Dialect Jokebooks and Russian-Yiddish and English-Yiddish Dictionaries Gabriella Safran 16. Dictionaries of Libras from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century: Historical Continuities and Persistent Challenges Jorge Bidarra and Tania Aparecida Martins

The broad linguistic (and geographic) scope of the volume enables such a comprehensive overview and constitutes its distinct advantage.