Lists and catalogues have been en vogue in philosophy, cultural, media and literary studies for more than a decade. These explorations of enumerative modes, how

This book provides a concise introduction to lists in literature from the early modern period to the twenty-first century. Tracing the changing functions of the

This open access book attempts to show that an examination of the list’s formal features has the potential to produce genuine insights into the production of

No people is nameless, and lists of words are as old as writing systems. And yet, both subjects can appear unpromising to historians. This volume shows the cont

This open access book examines how the form of the list features as a tool for meaning-making in the genre of detective fiction from the nineteenth to the twent