The Footnote a Curious History
- List Price: $38.50
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
- Publish date: 12/01/1997
Description:
The weapon of pedants, the scourge of undergraduates, the bete noire of the "new" liberated scholar: the lowly footnote, long the refuge of the minor and the marginal, emerges in this book as a singular resource, with a surprising history that says volumes about the evolution of modern scholarship. In Anthony Grafton's engrossing account, footnotes to history give way to footnotes as history, recounting in their subtle way the curious story of the progress of knowledge in written form.
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