Wit

Concept — appears in 1 work(s).

The essay treats wit as a formal, competitive intellectual institution among Early Victorian men of letters, distinct from accidental humour.

Works

• pun (Chesterton)
• How Watson Learnt the Trick (Conan Doyle)
• Uncollected Short Stories (Conan Doyle)
• A Moral Alphabet (Belloc)
• On (Belloc)
• On Nothing and Kindred Subjects (Belloc)
• The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts (Belloc)
• This and That and the Other (Belloc)

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