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The List

The Uses and Pleasures of Cataloguing

By: Robert E. Belknap

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The List

The Uses and Pleasures of Cataloguing

By: Robert E. Belknap

“I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in Walden. In creating this list, and many others that appear in his writings, Thoreau was working within a little-recognized yet ancient literary tradition: the practice of listing or cataloguing. This beautifully written book is the first to examine literary lists and the remarkably wide range of ways writers use them. 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—then focuses on lists in the works of four American Renaissance authors: Emerson, Whitman, Melville, and Thoreau. Lists serve a variety of functions in Emerson’s essays, Whitman’s poems, Melville’s novels, and Thoreau’s memoirs, and Belknap discusses their surprising variety of pattern, intention, scope, art, and even philosophy. In addition to guiding the reader through the list’s many uses, this book explores the pleasures that lists offer.

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272

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Yale University Press

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0300127197

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9780300127195

America, Past and Present

By: Robert A. Divine,R. Hal Williams

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America, Past and Present

By: Robert A. Divine,R. Hal Williams

With its careful balance of the social and political dimensions of the American past, "America Past and Present, Sixth Edition, Volume Two" helps readers grasp the scope and the complexity of American history since 1865. This book integrates political, diplomatic, social, cultural and economic history into one rich narrative that tells the story of all Americans-whites, blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics, women, politicians, business leaders, and the everyday person on the street. For anyone interested in American history since 1865.

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662

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Longman Publishing Group

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0321084039

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9780321084033

The American Story

By: Robert A. Divine,R. Hal Williams

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The American Story

By: Robert A. Divine,R. Hal Williams

The American Story presents a balanced and manageable overview of the United States as an unfolding story of national development, integrating social and political history into a coherent and compelling narrative. Acknowledging the nation's rich diversity of class, race, gender, and ethnicity, this edition tells the story both of the people who, through their collective and individual endeavors, shaped the past and of the demands that events placed upon them. This text is available in a highly affordable Penguin Academic edition.

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596

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Longman Publishing Group

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0321183223

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9780321183224

Lincoln's Trident

The West Gulf Blockading Squadron During the Civil War

By: Robert M. Browning Jr.,Robert M. Browning

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Lincoln's Trident

The West Gulf Blockading Squadron During the Civil War

By: Robert M. Browning Jr.,Robert M. Browning

Lincoln's Trident is the definitive account of the US Navy's West Gulf Blockading Squadron's quarantine of the Confederacy in the central and western Gulf of Mexico and adjacent river systems.

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715

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University of Alabama Press

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0817318461

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9780817318468

The List

The Uses and Pleasures of Cataloguing

By: Robert E. Belknap

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The List

The Uses and Pleasures of Cataloguing

By: Robert E. Belknap

Lists serve a variety of functions in Emerson's essays, Whitman's poems, Melville's novels, and Thoreau's memoirs. Belknap discusses the surprising variety of pattern, intention, scope, art, and even philosophy.

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0300103832

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