The list : the uses and pleasures of cataloguing

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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Main Author: Belknap, Robert E., 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882 > Technique.
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862 > Technique.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Technique.
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Technique.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892
1800-1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Lists in literature.
Catalogs in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
American literature
Catalogs in literature
Lists in literature
Technique
Lijsten (opsommingen)
Catalogi.
Letterkunde.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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