Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf
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Main Author: Bernstein, Susan David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2013
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
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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 London. Drawing 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 Br
Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:249 p.
ISBN:9780748681617
0748681612
9780748640652
0748640657
9781299483866
1299483860