The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums by Watson, Nicola J.
The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums by Watson, Nicola J.

The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums

The Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer's...
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Author: Nicola J. Watson
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The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums by Watson, Nicola J.

The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums

$168.38
The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums by Watson, Nicola J.

The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums

$168.38
Author: Nicola J. Watson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer's house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America. Exploring the ways that authorship has been mythologised through the conventions of the writer's house museum, The Author's Effects anatomises the how and why of the emergence, establishment, and endurance of popular notions of authorship in relation to creativity.

It traces how and why the writer's bodily remains, possessions, and spaces came to be treasured in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as a prelude to the appearance of formal writer's house museums. It ransacks more than 100 museums and archives to tell the stories of celebrated and paradigmatic relics--Burns' skull, Keats' hair, Petrarch's cat, Poe's raven, Bronte's bonnet, Dickinson's dress, Shakespeare's chair, Austen's desk, Woolf's spectacles, Hawthorne's window, Freud's mirror, Johnson's coffee-pot and Bulgakov's stove, amongst many others. It investigates houses within which nineteenth-century writers mythologised themselves and their work--Thoreau's cabin and Dumas' tower, Scott's Abbotsford and Irving's Sunnyside. And it tracks literary tourists of the past to such long-celebrated literary homes as Petrarch's Arqua, Rousseau's Ile St Pierre, and Shakespeare's Stratford to find out what they thought and felt and did, discovering deep continuities with the
redevelopment of Shakespeare's New Place for 2016.


Author: Nicola J. Watson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/09/2020
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780198847571


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Choice 03/01/2022

About the Author

Nicola J. Watson, Professor of English Literature, Open University

Nicola J. Watson trained at Oxford and held posts at Oxford, Harvard, Northwestern, and Indiana Universities before taking up a position at the Open University. A specialist in the literature and culture of the Romantic period, her research focusses on authorial afterlives and the associated histories of literary tourism, literary commemoration, and the literary museum.

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