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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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Liming, Sheila (مؤلف)
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press [2020]
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctv10qqzrk
جدول المحتويات:
  • The library as space: self-making and social endangerment in The decoration of houses and Summer
  • The library as hoard: collecting and cananicity in The house of mirth and Eline Vere
  • The library as network: affinity, exchange, and the makings of authorship
  • The library as tomb: monuments and memorials in Wharton's short fiction".