Samuel Johnson and the “shackles of lexicography” by Mugglestone, L

Enchaining syllables and lashing the wind: Samuel Johnson, Thomas Sheridan, and the ascertainment of spoken English by Mugglestone, L

Conflicted representations: language, lexicography, and Johnson’s “langscape” of war by Mugglestone, L

“…Books, as Samuel Johnson stated in 1754 in his Dictionary of the English Language neared completion, always exert “a secret influence on the understanding” so that the reader is informed in both overt and covert ways. …”