"That Reliance on the Ordinary": Jane Austen and the "Oxford English Dictionary."
- Author / Editor
- Brewer, Charlotte.
"That Reliance on the Ordinary": Jane Austen and the "Oxford English Dictionary."
- Published
- Review of English Studies 66, no. 276 (2015): 744–65.
- Description
- Argues that while quotations of Austen in the revised OED have increased in number overall, those of female authors are still extraordinarily low when compared to the canonical literary male authors: Shakespeare (c. 33,000), Walter Scott (c. 15,000), Milton (c. 12,000), and Chaucer (c. 11,000).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion