{"product_id":"a-dictionary-of-victorian-slang-and-phrase","title":"A Dictionary of Victorian Slang and Phrase","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePDR Minis #002\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1909, after decades collecting clippings of linguistic curiosities, James Redding Ware published \u003cem\u003ePassing English of the Victorian Era: A Dictionary of Heterodox English, Slang, and Phrase\u003c\/em\u003e — one of the most characterful reference works in the English language. Joyce drew on it when writing \u003cem\u003eUlysses\u003c\/em\u003e; the \u003cem\u003eOED\u003c\/em\u003e cites it over 150 times. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis abridged edition distils the liveliest of Ware’s 4,000-plus entries, steered by his own wish that no entry be “quite too dull”. Even reduced, a world exhales from these pages. And much of it laced with alcohol: the book is awash with terms for drink and drunkenness. Petty crime also plays its part, as does casual insult and flirtation, food, the music hall, anxieties of class, and the continual need to name things briskly in a crowded city. The Victorian world in its own unruly voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout PDR Press:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePDR Press is the publishing imprint of \u003ci\u003eThe Public Domain Review\u003c\/i\u003e. We bring the same care and attention that drives the journal to every book we publish — giving new form to out-of-copyright texts and images through imaginative curation, editing, and design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePDR Press Minis are pocket-sized editions of public domain texts: carefully curated, beautifully produced, and deliberately eclectic. Complete works and excerpts — stories, ideas, poems, miscellanies — from ancient curiosities through Victorian oddities to modernist rarities, each with an introductory note from our editors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PDR Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50972705063170,"sku":"9781911292036","price":18.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2228\/7429\/files\/victorianslang.jpg?v=1793944885","url":"https:\/\/shop.stlartsupply.com\/en-ca\/products\/a-dictionary-of-victorian-slang-and-phrase","provider":"St. Louis Art Supply","version":"1.0","type":"link"}