The Devil's Details
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- Synopsis
- Footnotes have not had it easy. Their dominance of eighteenth- and nineteenth- century literature and scholarship was both hard-won -- following many years of struggle -- and doomed, as it led to belittlement in the twentieth century. InThe Devil's Details,Chuck Zerby playfully explores footnotes' long and illustrious history and makes a clarion call to save them from the new world of the Internet and hypertext. In a story that boasts a marvelous plot and a rogues' gallery of players, Zerby examines traditional footnotes and their less-buttoned-down incarnations, as when used by pornographers. Yes,The Devil's Detailsis full of surprises: Zerby hunts down the first bona fide fully functioning footnote; unearths a multivolume history of Northumberland County, England, that uses one volume for a single footnote; and uncovers a murder plot. He even explains why footnotes are like blind dates. Carefully researched and highly opinionated,The Devil's Detailsaffirms that delight in reading can come from unexpected places.
- Copyright:
- 1986
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781416587330
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780743241755, 9781931229050, 9780756792954
- Publisher:
- Simon and Schuster
- Date of Addition:
- 08/07/10
- Copyrighted By:
- Robbins Research Institute
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Reference, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Humor
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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