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-ana (more frequently -iana) is a suffix of Latin origin, used in English to convert nouns, usually proper names, into mass nouns,〔http://www.cycfoundation.org/concepts/Ana-TheSuffix〕 as in Shakespeareana or Dickensiana, items or stories related to William Shakespeare or Charles Dickens, respectively. The recognition of this usage as a self-conscious literary construction, typically as a book title, traces back at least to 1740, when it was mentioned in an edition of ''Scaligerana'', a collection of table talk of Joseph Justus Scaliger, from around 150 years previously.〔http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/scaliger/scaligerana.htm〕 By that period Scaliger was described as "the father, so to speak, of all those books published under the title of -ana".〔Eva M. Sanford, "Scaligerana", ''The Classical Journal'', Vol. 26, No. 4 (January 1931), pp. 279-286.〕 As grammatical construction it is the neuter plural, nominative form of an adjective: so from ''Scaliger'' is formed first the adjective ''Scaligeranus'' (Scaligeran) which is then put into the form of an abstract noun ''Scaligerana'' (Scaligeran things). In Americana, a variant construction, the adjectival form already exists as ''Americanus'', so it is simply a neuter plural (suffix ''–a'' on the stem ''American-''); the case of Victoriana, things associated with the Victorian period, is superficially similar, but the Latin adjective form is Dog Latin. ==Examples== *''Sherlockiana'' *''Thraliana'' *''Shakespeariana; or the most beautiful topicks, descriptions, and similes that occur throughout all Shakespear's plays''; subtitle of Charles Gildon, ''The Complete Art of Poetry'' (1718) *''Gulliveriana: or a Fourth Volume of Miscellanies, being a sequel of the three volumes published by Pope and Swift, to which is added Alexanderiana, or a comparison between the ecclesiastical and poetical Popes and many things in verse and prose relating to the latter'' by Jonathan Smedley (1728). *''Johnsoniana: or, Supplement to Boswell'' (1842), by John Wilson Croker, formed from Samuel Johnson *C. A. Moore , ''Miltoniana'' (1679–1741), Modern Philology, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Feb., 1927), pp. 321–339. From John Milton. *"In all of Vidaliana, there may be no more famous moment than the evening of Wednesday, Aug. 28, 1968." From Gore Vidal.〔http://www.pitt.edu/~kloman/debates.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「-ana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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