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Pedagogies of Error : Grammar and Antebellum American Literature

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Hogan, Colin Peter
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[University Park, Pennsylvania] : Pennsylvania State University, 2018.
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1 electronic document
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Castiglia, Christopher
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"Pedagogies of Error: Grammar and Antebellum American Literature" reexamines the tradition of grammatical prescriptivism and its relationship to literature and literary style in the 19th-century United States. Whereas histories of English understand this early 19th-century moment as the final stage in the standardization of the English language, "Pedagogies of Error" argues that standardization provoked a number of reform movements that aimed to reimagine the possibilities of language. Far from a fixed system of rules and regulation, grammar continued to undergo revision as 19th-century American grammarians compiled grammatical theories from the past into new and fabulous creations.In addition to period textbooks, "Pedagogies of Error" investigates grammars print history, including including periodicals, newspapers, posters, and pamphlets. It pays special attention to poetry and imaginative prose, which record emerging possibilities of language. In chapters on Walt Whitman and pronouns, Harriet Wilson and verbs, and Herman Melville and adjectives, "Pedagogies of Error" theorizes literary style at the scale of the sentence.
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Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University 2018.
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Microfilm (positive). 1 reel ; 35 mm. (University Microfilms 28778764)
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