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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Үндсэн зохиолч: Liming, Sheila (Зохиогч)
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Хэл сонгох:англи
Хэвлэсэн: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press [2020]
Онлайн хандалт:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctv10qqzrk
Агуулга:
  • 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".