What a library means to a woman : Edith Wharton and the will to collect books /

"This book makes a claim for the centrality of libraries to the mythos of self-making in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American culture, focusing on Edith Wharton as its primary case in point. Wharton was never formally educated; rather, her private library collection, portions of...

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Autor principal: Liming, Sheila (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctv10qqzrk