Pedant’s revolt: Dissent in the hierarchy of scripts by Sawyer, D

Traditions of learning around the English battle of the books by Cattaneo, M

“…The article further emphasizes how the satirists (Swift especially) were aware of this strand of criticism, and yet how they hid their debt to it in order to portray textual criticism as a whole as a pedantic exercise. The Battle of the Books should therefore not be seen as a straightforward opposition between “supporters of the ancients” and “supporters of the moderns,” but as contention between doctrine and reason.…”

The satire of the Salonnière: women and humour in Seventeenth-Century France by Nicholson, A

“…This wannabe salon hostess strives to imitate the titular salonnière, Sapho, and become a well-respected savante, but instead appears excessive and pedantic in her efforts, attracting the ridicule of Sapho and her circle. …”

Beyond representation: 'materialising' the monumental sanctuaries of central Italy (second and first centuries BCE) by Ricci, L

“…At the same time, very little attention was given to the fact that the monumentalisation phenomenon or — to be pedantic — phenomena occurred over a protracted period of time, namely from the early second century to the mid-first century BCE, making it highly unlikely to see them as a unified process. …”

OED Online: "Who dares finde faulte with so promontorious a celsitude?" by Stanley, E

“…I did find a few things on which to comment, of (pedantic?) interest, at least to me: on the whole, OED's coverage was found to be very good when put to the test.…”

The etymological poetry of W. H. Auden, J. H. Prynne, and Paul Muldoon by Gaudern, M, Mia Gaudern

“…Their preoccupation with the history of words is self-consciously and unavoidably pedantic, and it is this pedantry that plays the most significant role in the poetic power they accord to etymology.…”

Spenser as maker: reinventing the English lexicon in The Shepheardes Calender by Crover, S

“…While it has been argued that, on occasion, E.K. either seems to explain the obvious or appears to mistranslate (most recently by the editors of the Yale Edition of the shorter poems), I contend that E.K. is neither a pedantic nor even a bumbling translator of terms, but is advancing, in effect, a careful agenda: if all glossary making is, by nature, an interested activity, Spenser/E.K.'…”