John Fischer
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Writing in America
Edited by John Fischer and Robert B. Silvers
Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press Classics
In this newly released volume in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint, Writing in America proves to be as stimulating as it was in 1960, and offers a range of provocative topics by diverse writers. The essays in this collection showcase a first-rate and highly entertaining piece of reporting on the American literary scene that still resonate in 2017.
- Copyright year: 2018
Writing in America
Edited by John Fischer and Robert B. Silvers
Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press Classics
In this newly released volume in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint, Writing in America proves to be as stimulating as it was in 1960, and offers a range of provocative topics by diverse writers. The essays in this collection showcase a first-rate and highly entertaining piece of reporting on the American literary scene that still resonate in 2017.
- Copyright year: 2018
Jonathan Swift's Word-Book
A Vocabulary Compiled for Esther Johnson and Copied in Her Own Hand
University of Delaware Press
This Word-Book is presumably the only work of Jonathan Swift’s not in print, until now. Since the 1690s, Swift had been formulating a list of words and definitions for his protégé Esther Johnson, beginning with terms from the Book of Common Prayer. His was apparently an ongoing list, kept rather haphazardly, with open spaces for adding new words. About 1710, when Swift was in London, Johnson, in Dublin, set out to formalize the dictionary, copying out Swift’s words and definitions to make an orderly and careful book with no blank spaces.
- Copyright year: 2017
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