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Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture Eup)
Susan David Bernstein
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Description for Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture Eup)
Paperback. Explores a specific site - the Reading Room of the British Museum - as a space of imaginative potential in relation to the emergence of modern women writers in Victorian and early 20th-century London. This book challenges an assessment of the Reading Room of the British Museum as a bastion of class and gender privilege. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages, 9 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 236 x 14. Weight in Grams: 394.
This book examines the Reading Room of the British Museum using documentary, theoretical, historical, and literary source. Roomscape explores a specific site - the Reading Room of the British Museum - as a space of imaginative potential in relation to the emergence of modern women writers in Victorian and early 20th-century London. Drawing on archival materials, Roomscape is the first study to integrate documentary, historical, and literary sources to examine the significance of this space and its resources for women who wrote translations, poetry, and fiction. This book challenges an assessment of the Reading Room of the British Museum as ... Read more
This book examines the Reading Room of the British Museum using documentary, theoretical, historical, and literary source. Roomscape explores a specific site - the Reading Room of the British Museum - as a space of imaginative potential in relation to the emergence of modern women writers in Victorian and early 20th-century London. Drawing on archival materials, Roomscape is the first study to integrate documentary, historical, and literary sources to examine the significance of this space and its resources for women who wrote translations, poetry, and fiction. This book challenges an assessment of the Reading Room of the British Museum as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748697946
SKU
V9780748697946
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About Susan David Bernstein
Susan David Bernstein is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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