
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 Intern...
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Print Length: 160 pages
Publisher: Touchstone; Reprint edition (November 1, 2007)
Publication Date: November 1, 2007
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Language: English
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Chuck Zerby's The Devil's Details: A History of Footnotes is a fine essay about footnotes in which the author demonstrates how footnotes can be used in an interesting, lively, and intelligent way. Unfortunately, the book length treatment feels a bit...
rtext.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.