Holy shit : a brief history of swearing /
Mohr, Melissa.
Holy shit : a brief history of swearing / Melissa Mohr. - Oxford [England] ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2013. - x, 316 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-304) and index.
To speak with Roman plainness : ancient Rome -- On Earth as it is in Heaven : the Bible -- Swearing God to pieces : the Middle Ages -- The rise of obscenity : the Renaissance -- The Age of Euphemism : the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- "Fuck 'em all" : swearing in the twentieth century and beyond.
0199742677 9780199742677 : $24.95
2012034513
English language--History.
English language--Obscene words--History.
English language--Slang--History.
English language--Social aspects--History.
Swearing--History.
Holy shit : a brief history of swearing / Melissa Mohr. - Oxford [England] ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2013. - x, 316 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-304) and index.
To speak with Roman plainness : ancient Rome -- On Earth as it is in Heaven : the Bible -- Swearing God to pieces : the Middle Ages -- The rise of obscenity : the Renaissance -- The Age of Euphemism : the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- "Fuck 'em all" : swearing in the twentieth century and beyond.
0199742677 9780199742677 : $24.95
2012034513
English language--History.
English language--Obscene words--History.
English language--Slang--History.
English language--Social aspects--History.
Swearing--History.