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标题：Interpreting Charles Lamb’s ‘Neat-Bound Books’
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作者：Laura Wright ; Christopher Langmuir
期刊名称：Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
印刷版ISSN：0081-6272
出版年度：2019
卷号：54
期号：1
页码：157-177
DOI：10.2478/stap-2019-0008
语种：English
出版社：Adam Mickiewicz University
摘要：AbstractIn this paper we consider a much-quoted phrase published by the essayist Charles Lamb (1775–1834) in theLondon Magazinein 1822 about a desirable quality in books: that they should be ‘strong-backed and neat-bound’. We identify meanings of modifierneatas evidenced by different communities of practice in early nineteenth-century newspapers, and in particular we present meanings ofneatas used in certain Quaker writings known to have been read with approval by Lamb. By this method we assemble a series of nuanced meanings that the phraseneat-boundwould have conveyed to contemporary readers – specifically, the readership of theLondon Magazine.
关键词：KeywordsCollocatescommunities of practicesocial networksleather-workersaccountantsQuakers