Description

• Title:
  Interpreting Charles Lamb’s ‘Neat-Bound Books’
• Creator:
  Wright, Laura;
  Langmuir, Christopher
• Description:
  In this paper we consider a much-quoted phrase published by the essayist Charles Lamb (1775–1834) in the London Magazine in 1822 about a desirable quality in books: that they should be ‘strong-backed and neat-bound’. We identify meanings of modifier neat as evidenced by different communities of practice in early nineteenth-century newspapers, and in particular we present meanings of neat as used in certain Quaker writings known to have been read with approval by Lamb. By this method we assemble a series of nuanced meanings that the phrase neat-bound would have conveyed to contemporary readers – specifically, the readership of the London Magazine.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2019 Laura Wright, Christopher Langmuir
• Date:
  2019.03.01
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Peer-reviewed articles
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Studia Anglica Posnaniensia; Vol. 54 No. 1 (2019); 157-177;
  Studia Anglica Posnaniensia; Tom 54 Nr 1 (2019); 157-177;
  2082-5102;
  0081-6272
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/stap/article/view/stap-2019-0008/28967
• Subject:
  Collocates;
  communities of practice;
  social networks;
  leather-workers;
  accountants;
  Quakers
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/stap/article/view/stap-2019-0008
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  other