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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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 語言: | 英语 |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press
[2020]
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| 在線閱讀: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctv10qqzrk |
書本目錄:
- 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".