Fingerprinting the Chapter

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What is a chapter, really? Inspired by Nicholas Dames’s work on the history of the chapter ( some of which appeared in the New Yorker a few years ago as “The Chapter: A History” ), I’ve started investigating this question. We all have an intuition about chapters—how long they should be, their temporal scope, what they generally contain. Most of us, if given a paragraph chosen at random from a…

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