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The Temple and the Forum: American Museum and Cultural Authority in Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman
Les Harrison
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Description for The Temple and the Forum: American Museum and Cultural Authority in Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman
Hardcover. The rise of the museum as a cultural institution in 19th-century America brought with it many contested notions. This work explores the shared concerns and practices of 19th-century American museums and the literary productions of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman. Num Pages: 296 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; GM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 653.
The rise of the museum as a cultural institution in 19th-century America brought with it many contested notions - of what artifacts merited preservation or display and the role of museums in public life and the cultural marketplace. In ""The Temple and the Forum"", Les Harrison excavates the shared concerns and practices of 19th-century American museums and the literary productions of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman. The various representational strategies of museums suggested to these authors solutions to problems of literary and political representation. In probing the practices of three of the 19th-century's most significant ... Read more
The rise of the museum as a cultural institution in 19th-century America brought with it many contested notions - of what artifacts merited preservation or display and the role of museums in public life and the cultural marketplace. In ""The Temple and the Forum"", Les Harrison excavates the shared concerns and practices of 19th-century American museums and the literary productions of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman. The various representational strategies of museums suggested to these authors solutions to problems of literary and political representation. In probing the practices of three of the 19th-century's most significant ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Alabama Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817315634
SKU
V9780817315634
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Reviews for The Temple and the Forum: American Museum and Cultural Authority in Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman
An ambitious, highly original, well-written, and beautifully researched piece of scholarship.... Harrison's project is the first to analyze fully P. T. Barnum's American Museum - arguably the best-known cultural institution in antebellum America - in relation to the literary culture of the period. His concern with the politics of interpretation and authority in public spaces links a surprising range of ... Read more