• Source: Leonard R. N. Ashley

      • Leonard R. N. Ashley(born January 5, 1928, in Miami) is an American writer on the English language. He was for many years professor of English at Brooklyn College. He was formerly on the editorial board of various academic journals in the US and abroad.
      He served as secretary of the International Linguistic Society (1980 - 1982) and later was on its board, was vice-president of Amici Linguarum, and participated in the International Conferences on Onomastic Sciences in Europe. He is a former member of the United States Board on Geographical Names. is a president emeritus of The American Society of Geolinguistics. Aside from more traditional works on English drama, fiction, poetry, books on onomastics and geolinguistics, he is also known for his series of popular dictionaries of the occult. A recent installment in Dr. Ashley's series on the occult is the ultimate resource for information on the werewolf. He contributed a Chronicle (c. 35 pages each, thrice annually) of book reviews to Bibliothèque d'Humanuisme et Renaissance (Geneva) from the 1960s to the end of 2018 and published hundreds of book reviews in Names, Geolinguistics, etc., and articles in Names, Word Ways, Comments on Etymology, Etc., Journal of Popular Culture, Onomasica, Hamlet Studies, Points of View, and other academic journals in the US and abroad. Some of his books have been published in Dutch, Italian, German, and Norwegian translations as well as in US and UK editions.


      Publications




      = English literature and linguistics

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      George Peele: The Man and His Work
      Colley Cibber
      Authorship and Evidence in Renaissance Drama
      Unhappy all the time": Religion in Anthony Burgess's Earthly Powers
      What I Know About You: 100 Lesbian & Gay New York Voices (novel and play)
      Cornish Names
      What's in a Name?: Everything You Wanted to Know (1989, revised 1995)
      Mexico: The Smart Traveler's Guide to All the Names
      George Alfred Henty and the Victorian Mind
      Spenser's Ideal of the Gentleman
      Geolinguistic Perspectives (ed., with Jesse Levitt & Kenneth H. Rogers)
      Ripley's "Believe It Or Not" Book of The Military
      Language and Modern Society
      Language and the New Technology
      Language in Action
      Living Language
      History of the Short Story
      Art Attack: Names in Satire
      A Garland of Names (with Wayne H. Finke, eds.)
      Names of Places
      Names in Literature
      Names in Popular Culture
      Animal Crackers (verse) and Poetry in Various Periodicals


      = Popular culture and the occult

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      The Complete Book of Devils and Demons
      The Complete Book of Vampires
      The Complete Book of the Devil's Disciples
      The Complete Book of Spells, Curses and Magical Recipes
      The Complete Book of Ghosts and Poltergeists
      The Complete Book of Werewolves
      The Complete Book of Sex Magic
      The Complete Book of Magic and Witchcraft (2 German editions)
      The Amazing World Of Superstition
      The Complete Book of Superstition, Prophecy and Luck (also in Dutch)
      Ripley's Believe it Or Not! Book of the Military
      The Complete Book of Numerology (also in Italian)
      The Complete book of Dreams and What They Mean
      The Wonderful World of Superstition, Prophecy, and Luck
      Tales of Mystery and Melodrama
      Halloween
      Last Days: The Messiah, The Apocalypse, The Rapture, The Last Judgment


      = Folklore

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      Elizabethan Popular Culture
      Nordic Folklore and Tradition (with Ola J. Holten) also published in Nynorsk in Sweden in a translation by Ola J. Holten and that some books on the occult are in UK as well as US editions and translations into Dutch, German, and Italian and some are reissued with new prefaces


      = Textbooks and translations

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      Other People's Lives
      Mirrors for Man; 26 Plays of the World Drama
      6 Plays of World Drama (Taiwan)
      Nineteenth-Century British Drama (Scott, Foresman reprinted revised by University Press of America)
      British Short Stories: Classics and Criticism (with Stuart L. Astor, Tales of Mystery and Melodrama)
      America: Naming the Country and Its People, Allen Walter Read, ed. L. R. N. Ashley)
      Colonial American English (Richard Lederer, ed. Ashley)
      A Garland of Names (ed. with Wayne H. Finke)
      A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke (ed. Ashley)
      Ballad Poetry of Ireland (ed. Ashley)
      Phantasms of the Living 2 vols., Myers, Podmore, Gurney, ed. Ashley)
      Reliques of Irish Poetry (ed. Ashley)
      Shakespeare's Jest Book (ed. Ashley)
      Suhrab and Rustum (ed. Ashley)


      = Conference proceedings

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      Geolinguistic Perspectives (ed. Ashley, Kenneth H. Rogers, Jesse Levitt)
      Constructed Language and Language Construction (ed. with Wayne H. Finke)
      Language across Border (ed. with Wayne H. Finke)
      Language and Communication in the New Century (ed. with Wayne H. Finke)
      Language and Identity (ed. with Wayne H. Finke)
      Language and Politics (ed. with Wayne H. Finke)
      Language and Popular Culture (ed. with Wayne H. Finke)
      Language in Contemporary Society (ed with Wayne H. Finke)
      Language in the Era of Globalization (ed. with Wayne H. Finke)
      Language under Controls (ed. with Wayne H. Finke)


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