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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]
- ^ Swift, J. (1999). A Tale of a Tub and Other Works. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-19283-593-2.
- ^ Conrad, Peter (September 7, 2021). "Index, A History of the by Dennis Duncan review – scholarly anarchy" – via The Guardian.
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