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Author | Dennis Duncan |
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Language | English |
Subject | Indexes |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Publication date | February 15, 2022 |
Pages | 352 |
ISBN | 978-1-324-00254-3 |
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age is a 2022 book by Dennis Duncan that examines the history of indexes. Indexes, argues Duncan—paraphrasing Jonathan Swift's Mechanical Operation of the Spirit[note 1]—allow the reader a legitimate means of starting a book from the back, a practice he compares to "travellers entering a palace through the privy".[2]
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