The Devils Details

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Simon & Schuster

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491_9780743241755

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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 Devils 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 Devils 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 Devils Details affirms that delight in reading can come from unexpected places.

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