Download or read book The Queer Plungers written by Richard Horchler and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term queer plungers was used in nineteenth-century England to describe a specific ilk of con artists. One of them would throw himself into the Thames River, and the other two would pretend to save him from drowning. Then they would go to the local humane society and collect a reward. Not the smartest con artists. The novel The Queer Plungers is about con artists, but not your typical ones. The setting is Harvard University, and there are four protagonists. Four students in their junior year and with no academic direction or motivation. Lost in their loving lifestyle, they form a friendship with a young professor, and the adventure begins. Genius and playfulness. Self-discovery and friendships that challenge the imagination. Personalities that lack shyness and poke fun at convention. Find yourself. You are in here somewhere.
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Underworld written by Eric Partridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 2680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, as well as from Britain and America and offers a fascinating and unique study of language. The book provides an invaluable insight into social history, with the British vocabulary dating back to the 16th century and the American to the late 18th century. Each entry comes complete with the approximate date of origin, the etymology for each word, and a note of the milieu in which the expression arose.
Download or read book The Selected Works of Eric Partridge written by Eric Partridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 2733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set reissues important selected works by Eric Partridge, covering the period from 1933 to 1968. Together, the books look at many and diverse aspects of language, focusing in particular on English. Included in the collection are a variety of insightful dictionaries and reference works that showcase some of Partridge’s best work. The books are creative, as well as practical, and will provide enjoyable reading for both scholars and the more general reader, who has an interest in language and linguistics.
Download or read book Grose s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue written by Francis Grose and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Servants of Desire in Virginia Woolf s Shorter Fiction written by Heather Levy and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Servants of Desire in Virginia Woolf's Shorter Fiction proposes an insight into the ways in which Virginia Woolf engaged with the questions of how class influences working women's occupation of private and public space and how material privilege or economic distress inhibits or encourages their likelihood of obtaining their intellectual, spiritual, and physical desires. This groundbreaking book uses class as the determining factor to assess how servants and working class women occupy private and public space and articulate or fail to realize their desires. Drawing upon published and unpublished holograph and typescript drafts of the shorter fiction in The Monks House Papers as well as the Berg Collection, this book examines Woolf's oscillating patterns of elision, idealization, and contempt for the voices and desires of female servants, lesbians, gypsies, and other disenfranchised women. The Servants of Desire in Virginia Woolf's Shorter Fiction also assesses how the portrayal of working class women in the shorter fiction becomes a vital template for the representation of working class women in Woolf's novels and essays. This study of the cumulative portrayal of the working class woman in all of Virginia Woolf's shorter fiction will also be compelling for anyone interested in social justice, especially for advocates of equality in gender/race/class/sexuality conflicts.
Download or read book Life s Painter of Variegated Characters in Public and Private Life written by George Parker and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue written by Francis Grose and published by . This book was released on 1785 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue written by Francis Grose and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue written by Anonymous and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds written by Maurizio Gotti and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The object of the volume is the analysis of the main dictionaries and glossaries of the canting language (the particular jargon spoken by thieves and vagabonds) that appeared in the 17th and 18th centuries. The scholars' attention has mostly concentrated on the earliest publications - particulary those appearing in the Elizabethan period -, while relatively little research has investigated subsequent canting dictionaries and glossaries. The aim of the present volume is to fill this gap. The main works on canting published in the 17th and 18th centuries are analysed in chapters 3 to 10. The first two chapters provide a necessary introduction to the investigation carried out in the subsequent sections, examining the great increase in the numbers of vagabonds and criminals in England in that period from a sociohistorical perspective and reviewing the 16th-century English literature about the underworld. The subsequent eight chapters give a detailed analysis of the main works on canting which appeared in the second part of the 17th century and during the whole of the 18th century. The specific features of each publication are identified, as well as the method adopted by its author in the compilation of his dictionary/glossary and the most likely sources of its entries, in order to determine the degree of novelty and relevance that his contribution has brought to this field. The final chapter deals with the evolution in the meaning of the term 'cant' itself in the period taken into consideration.
Download or read book Faith Hope and Trickery written by Susan Grossey and published by Susan Grossey. This book was released on 2018-03-10 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose Welford, the wife of a bootmaker, is smothered in her bed in the summer of 1828. Her husband quickly confesses to the crime, claiming that a message from beyond the grave told him to do it. At ever more popular gatherings in fields, factories and fine houses, a charismatic preacher with a history of religious offences seems to be at the heart of it all – but who, and what, can be believed when fortunes are at stake? In this fifth novel in the series, Constable Sam Plank is drawn into matters beyond his understanding when his wife Martha hears a message of her own and his junior constable Wilson makes a momentous choice.
Download or read book A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue written by and published by . This book was released on 1785 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries written by Julie Coleman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of Julie Coleman's fascinating and entertaining history of the uses and the recording of slang and criminal cant takes the story from 1785 to 1858 and explores its first manifestations in the USA and Australia.During this period glossaries of cant are thrown into the shade by dictionaries of slang, which now include the language of thieves and cover a broad spectrum of non-standard English. Cant represented a practical threat to life and property. Slang, the author reveals, was a threat to the moral core of society, insidiously seductive to a wide section of the public.Julie Coleman shows how Francis Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue revolutionised lexicography of non-standard English. She explores the earliest Australian and American slang glossaries, whose authors included the thrice-transported James Hardy Vaux and George Matsell, New York City's first chief of police.
Download or read book Verbivore s Feast written by Chrysti Mueller Smith and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What led to the expression "let the cat out of the bag"? Why do we call blondes "towheads"? For Pete's sake, what is a fangle? In this humorous and engaging collection of word origins and histories, the famed host of the Chrysti the Wordsmith series (heard on Yellowstone Public Radio, Montana Public Radio, Montana State University's KGLT-FM, and Armed Forces Radio and Television Service) shares the stories behind the words. This irresistible medley is a must for word lovers everywhere.
Download or read book A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue By Francis Grose written by and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Classical Dictionary of the vulgar tongue written by Francis Grose and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vices of My Blood written by Maureen Jennings and published by McClelland & Stewart Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling new novel by Canada's answer to Anne Perry. In his forties, the Reverend Charles Howard still cut an impressive figure. A married Presbyterian minister in Toronto's east end, Howard was popular with the congregation that elected him, especially with the ladies, and most particularly with Miss Sarah Dignam. Respected in the community, Howard, as Visitor for the House of Industry, sat in judgment on the poor, assessing their applications for the workhouse. But now Howard is dead, stabbed and brutally beaten by someone he invited into his office. His watch and boots are missing. Has some poor beggar he turned down taken his vengeance? Murdoch's investigation takes him into the arcane Victorian world of queer plungers men who fake injury all the better to beg and the destitute who had nowhere left to turn when they knocked on the Reverend Howard's door. From the Trade Paperback edition.
