UID:
edocfu_9960141220802883
Format:
1 online resource (248 p.) :
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9 B/W illustrations
ISBN:
9780748681617
Series Statement:
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
Content:
Examines the Reading Room of the British Museum as a space of imaginative and historically generative potential in relation to the emergence of modern women writers in Victorian and early twentieth-century LondonGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748640652','ISBN:9780748681617']);'Roomscape deserves to find a readership, for its original pursuit of a rich topic and the possibilities it suggests for further study.' - Matthew Ingleby, TLS'By drawing women back towards the foci of 19th-century intellectual life, Bernstein has done library history a great service.' - Colin Higgins, Librarian, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, THEDrawing on archival materials around this national library reading room, Roomscape is the first study that integrates documentary, theoretical, historical, and literary sources to examine the significance of this public interior space for women writers and their treatment of reading and writing spaces in literary texts. This book challenges an assessment of the Reading Room of the British Museum as a bastion of class and gender privilege, an image firmly established by Virginia Woolf's 1929 A Room of One's Own and the legions of feminist scholarship that upholds this spatial conceit.Susan David Bernstein argues not only that the British Museum Reading Room facilitated various practices of women's literary traditions, she also questions the overdetermined value of privacy and autonomy in constructions of female authorship, a principle generated from Woolf's feminist manifesto. Rather than viewing reading and writing as solitary, individual events, Roomscape considers the meaning of exteriority and the public and social and gendered dimensions of literary production."
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Figures --
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Series Editor’s Preface --
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Acknowledgements --
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Abbreviations --
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1. Exteriority: Women Readers at the British Mu --
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2. Translation Work and Women’s Labour from the British Museum --
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3. Poetry in the Round: Mutual Mentorships --
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4. Researching Romola: George Eliot and Dome Consciousness --
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5. Reading Woolf’s Roomscapes --
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Coda: Closing Years and Afterlives --
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Appendix: Notable Readers --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
DOI:
10.1515/9780748681617
URL:
Co-access DOI click Walter de Gruyter
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748681617
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