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Lean's Collectanea
Vincent Stuckey Lean
其他書名
Encyclopedia of Proverbs
出版Thoemmes, 2000
主題Reference / Encyclopedias
ISBN18550664249781855066427
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7XptPwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋'Lean's Collectanea is an absolutely unique, essential, and invaluable English proverb collection. I am so glad that it is in print again due to your efforts. It is a standard reference work.'
--Prof. Wolfgang Mieder

'The best work on the subject since John Ray's 'Collection of English Proverbs' (1670)


Lean's Collectanea is a vast collection of proverbs, folklores and superstitions acquired over a lifetime by Vincent Stuckey Lean of Bristol (1820--99). Painstakingly collected and researched during Lean's travels on the Continent and throughout Britain, the 5-volume Collectanea is packed with many thousands of entries, helpfully arranged by theme and fully indexed.

Covering all periods and many countries, the Collectanea goes well beyond simply listing proverbs; it includes superstitions, popular customs and sayings, proverbial witticisms, rhymes and aphorisms; it records death customs, cures for diseases, omens and signs, good luck sayings, charms, and more. Lean unearths the provenance of many obscure proverbs, and consults an extraordinary number of sources (the list of authorities covers more than 100 pages). Assembled for publication after the author's death, this lively work also contains Lean's extensive contributions to Notes and Queries, 'A New Treasury of Similes', and a biographical memoir of Lean by Julia Lucy Woodward.

The proverb was at its peak in Britain in Elizabethan times, and Lean's work is particularly authoritative and helpful in illuminating the literature of this era. In addition to English literature departments, it will be of strong interest to philological and language students, scholars in cultural studies (many proverbs are based on racial, nationalist and class beliefs), oral historians, linguists and folklorists.

--famous and long out of print gigantic collection of proverbs
--major storehouse of information for the study of language, folklore, cultural studies and more
--broad scope that includes customs, superstitions, aphorisms, charms, etc.
--index helps navigate the vast amount of information