What a Library Means to a Woman : Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books /

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"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Liming, Sheila (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937.
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937 > Criticism and interpretation.
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937 > Library.
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937 > Books and reading.
Libraries in literature.
Libraries.
Books and reading.
Bibliotheques dans la litterature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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".

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