The Footnote A Curious History |
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| Author:
| Grafton, Anthony |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-30760-5 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1999 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $44.99 |
Book Description:
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The weapon of pedants, the scourge of undergraduates, the bête 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.
The weapon of pedants, the scourge of undergraduates, the bête 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.