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https://hdl.handle.net/10593/25661
Title:
Interpreting Charles Lamb’s ‘neat-bound books’
Authors:
Wright, Laura
Langmuir, Christopher
Keywords:
collocates
communities of practice
social networks
leather-workers
accountants
Quakers
Issue Date:
2019
Publisher:
Adam Mickiewicz University
Citation:
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 54 (2019), pp. 157-177
Abstract:
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.
URI:
http://hdl.handle.net/10593/25661
DOI:
10.2478/stap-2019-0008
ISSN:
0081-6272
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2019 vol. 54
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