On Pedantry

A Cultural History of the Know-It-All

by Arnoud S. Q. Visser

First published 2025 · debut

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Reception

2026
London Review of Books
Reviewed by Colin Burrow, 9 July

London Review of Books · 9 July 2026

Colin Burrow · Dictionary Men: Pedantry

By Colin Burrow

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Catalogue record

Princeton University Press · 328 pages

Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages: 328
ISBN: 978-0-691-25756-3 +1

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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages: 328
ISBNs: 978-0-691-25756-3
978-0-691-25758-7
Author: Visser, Arnoud S. Q.
Statement: On Pedantry : A Cultural History of the Know-It-All / Arnoud S. Q. Visser.
Records: Open Library

Subjects

2020s