Verlag:
Yale University Press, New Haven
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EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA
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...
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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 Thoreau.