Index, a history of the a bookish adventure from medieval manuscripts to the digital age
"Most of us give little thought to the back of the book--it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pa...
| Main Author: | Duncan, Dennis (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company Inc.,
2022.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Point of order: on alphabetical arrangement
- The births of the index: preaching and teaching
- Where would we be without it?: the miracle of the page number
- The map or the territory: the index on trial
- 'Let no damned Tory index my history!': sparring in the back pages
- Indexing fictions: naming was always a difficult art
- 'A key to all knowledge': the universal index
- Ludmilla and Lotaria: The book index in the age of search
- Coda: Archives of reading.