Table of Contents

Introduction
1: John Camden Hotten
2: International Slang Dictionaries of the 1880s and 1890s
3: Farmer and Henley's Slang and its Analogues
4: Other British General Slang Dictionaries
5: British School and University Glossaries
6: Australian Slang Dictionaries
7: Dictionaries of General American Slang
8: American School and University Glossaries
9: Dictionaries of First World War Slang
10: Dictionaries of Homelessness
11: Dictionaries of Crime
12: Glossaries of the Entertainment Industries
Conclusion
Appendix

About the Author

Julie Coleman is Reader in English at the University of Leicester and founder of the International Society for Historical Lexicography and Lexicology. Her research interests lie in the history of the English language, particularly the history of the lexis. She is the author of A Thesaurus of Love, Sex, and Marriage, Rodopi 1999. The first two volumes of her history of cant and slang dictionaries, on the periods 1567-1784 and 1785-1858, were published by
OUP in 2004. A fourth volume taking the history to 1984 is in preparation.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition A fascinating glimpse into a world in which a secret language was at once menacing and thrilling.'
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`A scholarly study, scrupulously researched and statistically informative; it is also entertaining to read.'
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