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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Nicola J. Watson trained at Oxford and held posts at Oxford, Harvard, Northwestern, and Indiana Universities before taking up a position at the Open University. A specialist in the literature and culture of the Romantic period, her research focusses on authorial afterlives and the associated histories of literary tourism, literary commemoration, and the literary museum.
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Introduction 1: Remains: Burns' skull and Keats' hair 2: Bodies: Petrarch's cat and Poe's Raven 3: Clothing: Brontë's bonnet and Dickinson's dress 4: Furniture: Shakespeare's chair and Austen's desk 5: Household Effects: Johnson's coffee-pot and Twain's effigy 6: Glass: Woolf's spectacles and Freud's mirror 7: Outhouses: Thoreau's cabin and Dumas' prison 8: Enchanted Ground: Scott's Abbotsford, Irving's Sunnyside, Shakespeare's New Place 9: Exit through the Gift-shop