Description
Title: Devil’s Details: A History of Footnotes
Author: Chuck Zerby
ISBN: 9780743241755
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2003
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 1st Touchstone ed
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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. In The 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 Details is 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 Details affirms that delight in reading can come from unexpected places.
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