The list : the uses and pleasures of cataloguing /

Robert Belknap first examines lists through the centuries, from Sumerian account tablets and Homer's catalogue of ships to Tom Sawyer's earnings from his fence-painting scheme. He then focuses on lists in the works of four American Renaissance authors - Emerson, Whitman, Melville and Thore...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
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Main Author: Belknap, Robert E., 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:New Haven : Yale University Press, 2004.
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