Terence M. Russell. The Encyclopaedic Dictionary in the Eighteenth Century: Architecture, Arts and Crafts. Volume One: John Harris Lexicon Technicum, Incorporating Works of Sir Francis Bacon and Sir Henry Wotton. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company. 1997. Pp. xix, 226. $67.95. ISBN 1-85928-062-5. - Terence M. Russell. The Encyclopaedic Dictionary in the Eighteenth Century: Architecture, Arts and Crafts. Volume Two: Ephraim Chambers Cyclopaedia. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company. 1997. Pp. xvii, 414. $76.95. ISBN 1-85928-063-3. - Terence M. Russell. The Encyclopaedic Dictionary in the Eighteenth Century: Architecture, Arts and Crafts. Volume Three: The Builder's Dictionary. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company. 1997. Pp. xvii, 268. $67.95. ISBN 1-85928-409-4. - Terence M. Russell. The Encyclopaedic Dictionary in the Eighteenth Century: Architecture, Arts and Crafts. Volume Four: Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company. 1997. Pp. xvii, 229. $67.95. ISBN 1-85928-064-1. - Terence M. Russell. The Encyclopaedic Dictionary in the Eighteenth Century: Architecture, Arts and Crafts. Volume Five: A Society of Gentlemen Encyclopaedia Britannica. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company. 1997. Pp. xvi, 239. $67.95. ISBN 1-85928-065-X.

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 695-698
Author(s):  
Douglas. C. Chambers
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
Samuel Johnson ◽  
Publishing Company ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
Ashgate Publishing ◽  
Encyclopaedic Dictionary

Manners and Mustard: Ideas of Political Decline in Sixteenth-Century Scotland

1995 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-263
Author(s):  
David Allan
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
National Culture ◽  
English Language ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Samuel Johnson ◽  
The Self ◽  
Moral Outrage ◽  
The People

With an acidity wholly typical of the Dictionary of the English Language (1755), Samuel Johnson was to observe that “oats,” which “in England is commonly given to horses … in Scotland supports the people.” It has not unnaturally been the assumption of posterity that most eighteenth-century Scotsmen, by then the self-confident inhabitants of a newly civilised and enlightened community, would have been suitably offended by what has since become a notorious imputation of national plainness and pauperism. Yet there are, I want to suggest, substantial grounds for doubting this apparently straightforward conclusion. The meagreness of the early-modern Scottish diet had in fact always been a matter for the most determined moral pride. The elderly Jacobite, Mackintosh of Borlum, for example, had as recently as the 1720s responded to the increasing sophistication of the post-Union table with open disdain: “Formerly I had been served with two or three substantial dishes of beef, mutton, and fowl, garnished with their own wholesome gravy,” the suspicious old laird complained, but “I am now served up little expensive ashets with English pickles, Indian mangoes, and anchovy sauces.” Robert Monro of Opisdale, too, writing nearly a century before, in the 1630s, had described with palpable moral outrage the flagrant indiscipline and consequent military weakness of those Scottish soldiers in the armies of Gustavus Adolphus whose “stomackes could not digest a Gammon of Bacon or cold Beefe without mustard, so farre [they] were out of use.” And in Sir Walter Scott's Waverley (1814), surely the most influential examination of the national culture ever composed, it is also obvious that that patriotic pedant, the Baron of Bradwardine, offering hospitality to his young visitor at Tully-Veolan, the seat of ancient Scottish virtue, finds himself by no means embarrassed at being unable to “rival the luxuries of [his] English table.”

scholarly journals The Famous Dictionary of the Eighteenth Century

1930 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 16-18
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
Samuel Johnson ◽  
Title Page ◽  
English Grammar ◽  
History Of

The volumes are ponderous. The title-page in sonorous and dignified language informs one that this is “A Dictionary of the English Language in which the WORDS are deduced from their ORIGINALS, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers, to which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar. By Samuel Johnson, A.M. In Two Volumes.” The page is then topped off in good Johnsonian style with a nine-line Latin quotation from Horace.

Inventing the English Massacre

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Games
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
English Language ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Dutch East India Company ◽  
Violent Event ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
English East India Company ◽  
British Culture

This book explains how a conspiracy trial featuring English, Japanese, and Indo-Portuguese co-conspirators who allegedly plotted against the Dutch East India Company in the Indian Ocean in 1623 produced a diplomatic crisis in Europe and became known for four centuries in British culture as the Amboyna Massacre. The story of the transformation of this conspiracy into a massacre is a story of Anglo-Dutch relations in the seventeenth century and of a new word in the English language, massacre. The English East India Company drew on this new word to craft an enduring story of cruelty, violence, and ingratitude. Printed works—both pamphlets and images—were central to the East India Company’s creation of the massacre and to the story’s tenacity over four centuries as the texts and images were reproduced during conflicts with the Dutch and internal political disputes in England. By the eighteenth century, the story emerged as a familiar and shared cultural touchstone. By the nineteenth century, the Amboyna Massacre became the linchpin of the British Empire, an event that historians argued well into the twentieth century had changed the course of history and explained why the British had a stronghold in India. The broad familiarity with the incident and the Amboyna Massacre’s position as an early and formative violent event turned the episode into the first English massacre. It shaped the meaning of subsequent acts of violence, and placed intimacy, treachery, and cruelty at the center of massacres in ways that endure to the present day.

The Female Quixote

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Lennox ◽  
Margaret Anne Doody
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Women's Literature ◽  
Samuel Johnson ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Charlotte Lennox

The Female Quixote (1752), a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays the beautiful and aristocratic Arabella, whose passion for reading romances leads her into all manner of misunderstandings. Praised by Fielding, Richardson and Samuel Johnson, the book quickly established Charlotte Lennox as a foremost writer of the Novel of Sentiment. With an excellent introduction and full explanatory notes, this edition will be of particular interest to students of women's literature, and of the eighteenth-century novel.

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