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Index, a History of The

Index, a History of The

A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age

by Dennis Duncan
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Publication Date: 25/04/2023
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Buried in the back of the book, we find the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past. Charting its curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, Dennis Duncan uncovers how the index has saved heretics from the stake, kept politicians from high office, and made us all into the readers we are today. Index, A History of the shows that, for all our anxieties about the Age of Search, we are all index-rakers at heart.
ISBN:
9781324050513
9781324050513
Category:
Literature: history & criticism
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
25-04-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
W. W.\Norton#& Company, Incorporated
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
210.82x139.7x22.86mm
Weight:
0.27kg
Dennis Duncan

Dennis Duncan is a writer, translator, lecturer in English at University College London, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has published numerous academic books, including Book Parts and The Oulipo and Modern Thought, as well as translations of Michel Foucault, Boris Vian, and Alfred Jarry. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books, and recent articles have considered Mallarme and jugs, James Joyce and pornography, and the history of Times New Roman.

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