The Devil's Details: A History of Footnotes
By (author): "Chuck Zerby"
Publish Date:
2001
ISBN0743241754
ISBN139780743241755
AsinThe Devil's Details: A History of Footnotes
Original titleThe Devil's Details: A History of Footnotes
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.