| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: entrace this way... -- Remains: Burns' skull and Keats' hair -- Bodies: Petrarch's cat and Poe's raven -- Clothing: Brontë's bonnet and Dickinson's dress -- Furniture: Shakespeare's chair and Austen's desk -- Household effects: Johnson's coffee-pot and Twain's effigy -- Glass: Woolf's spectacles and Freud's mirror -- Outhouses: Thoreau's cabin and Dumas' prison -- Enchanted ground: Scott's Abbotsford, Irving's Sunnyside, and Shakespeare's New Place -- Exit through the gift shop |
| Summary |
A fascinating account of the emergence of the writer's house museum over the course of the nineteenth century in Britain, Europe, and North America. It considers the museum as a cultural form and asks why it appeared and how it has constructed authorial afterlife for readers individually and collectively |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on June 9, 2020) |
| Subject |
Literary landmarks.
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Literary museums.
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Literary landmarks
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Literary museums
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191886751 |
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9780192586827 |
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0192586823 |
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9780192586834 |
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0192586831 |
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0191886750 |
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