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Benzie, William Dr. F.J. Furnivall, Victorian Scholar Adventurer
Norman, OK Pligrim Books, Inc. 1983 First Edition Cloth Near Fine in Near Fine DJ
Frederick James Furnivall, Surrey, England, (1825 – 1910), Philologist (Linguistics), co-creatorsof the Oxford English Dictionary, and founder of many notable literary societies. Furnivall was indefatigable in his promoting of English literature, considered to be a colorful and controversial Victorian maverick during a time when Oxford and Cambridge officials were virtually ignoring the subject. In this book the author "traces traces Furnivall's extraordinary career from his early days a Christian Socialist teaching workers the beauties of Chaucer and Langland at the London Working Men's College, to the period of his crucial involvement in the conception and composition of the Oxford English Dictionary". The book provides a thorough study of the literary societies Furnivall founded and presided over: the Ballad Society, the Chaucer Society, the New Shakespere Society (whose activities provoked an notorious row between Furnivall and Swinburne), the Browning Society, the Shelley Society and the Wyclif Society. Furnivall's varied scholarly interests are reflected in every aspect of his avant-garde, enterprising personality. This is the first full-length study of Furnivall and his important imprint in the scholarship and development of Victorian Literature. Teal color cloth, bright gilt to spine, light bump to lower front corner. DW blue, portrait of Furnivall, mild bump to front tips, slight rubbing of tips. Rear dw lower half evidence of dampness with light stain, not through to boards. Clean, tightly bound, no writing. In mylar cover. First Edition. tall 8 vo., 302 p.p.
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