Author: University of Texas. Library. John Henry Wrenn Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the Late John Henry Wrenn...
Author: University of Texas. Library. John Henry Wrenn Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Collecting, Curating, and Researching Writers' Libraries
Author: Richard W. Oram
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442234989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Academic collection practices in recent years have extended to the private libraries of notable individual authors. As a consequence, book historians have become more interested in the study of provenance of the contents of these libraries, while literary scholars have devoted more attention to authorial annotations. At the same time, the Internet has encouraged both scholarly and hobbyist reconstructions of private libraries (see, for example, the “Legacy Libraries” on Librarything.com). Although there are many bibliographies and reconstructions of the libraries of authors, this is the first general consideration of these libraries and serves as an introduction to best practices for academic libraries in their acquisition, cataloging and issues of access. This collection begins with principal editor Richard Oram’s historical overview of writers’ libraries and institutional collecting, focusing primarily on English-language authors. The co-editor, Joseph Nicholson, has provided a definitive review of best cataloging and arrangement practices that facilitate scholarly access. The bookseller Kevin Mac Donnell discusses the marketing of these collections and obstacles to placing intact author libraries in institutions. Also included are case studies by Amanda Golden and David Faulds relating to the personal libraries of the poets Anne Sexton and Ted Hughes, indicating how these collections have the potential to enhance archival research. Fiction writers Iain Sinclair, Russell Banks, Jim Crace, poet Ted Kooser, and biographer Ron Powers describe their (sometimes passionate) relationship with books and their own personal libraries. The concluding chapter, a location guide to over 500 individual libraries, will be invaluable to scholars and librarians who want to know where writers’ libraries are currently located, what happened to them (if they are known to have been sold or dispersed), and what has been written about them.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442234989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Academic collection practices in recent years have extended to the private libraries of notable individual authors. As a consequence, book historians have become more interested in the study of provenance of the contents of these libraries, while literary scholars have devoted more attention to authorial annotations. At the same time, the Internet has encouraged both scholarly and hobbyist reconstructions of private libraries (see, for example, the “Legacy Libraries” on Librarything.com). Although there are many bibliographies and reconstructions of the libraries of authors, this is the first general consideration of these libraries and serves as an introduction to best practices for academic libraries in their acquisition, cataloging and issues of access. This collection begins with principal editor Richard Oram’s historical overview of writers’ libraries and institutional collecting, focusing primarily on English-language authors. The co-editor, Joseph Nicholson, has provided a definitive review of best cataloging and arrangement practices that facilitate scholarly access. The bookseller Kevin Mac Donnell discusses the marketing of these collections and obstacles to placing intact author libraries in institutions. Also included are case studies by Amanda Golden and David Faulds relating to the personal libraries of the poets Anne Sexton and Ted Hughes, indicating how these collections have the potential to enhance archival research. Fiction writers Iain Sinclair, Russell Banks, Jim Crace, poet Ted Kooser, and biographer Ron Powers describe their (sometimes passionate) relationship with books and their own personal libraries. The concluding chapter, a location guide to over 500 individual libraries, will be invaluable to scholars and librarians who want to know where writers’ libraries are currently located, what happened to them (if they are known to have been sold or dispersed), and what has been written about them.
Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester
Author: John Rylands University Library of Manchester
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Historical Catalogue of the Printed Editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society: English
Author: British and Foreign Bible Society. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk Buckingham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 918
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 918
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Behind the Times
Author: Mary Jean Corbett
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501752472
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Virginia Woolf, throughout her career as a novelist and critic, deliberately framed herself as a modern writer invested in literary tradition but not bound to its conventions; engaged with politics but not a propagandist; a woman of letters but not a "lady novelist." As a result, Woolf ignored or disparaged most of the women writers of her parents' generation, leading feminist critics to position her primarily as a forward-thinking modernist who rejected a stultifying Victorian past. In Behind the Times, Mary Jean Corbett finds that Woolf did not dismiss this history as much as she boldly rewrote it. Exploring the connections between Woolf's immediate and extended family and the broader contexts of late-Victorian literary and political culture, Corbett emphasizes the ongoing significance of the previous generation's concerns and controversies to Woolf's considerable achievements. Behind the Times rereads and revises Woolf's creative works, politics, and criticism in relation to women writers including the New Woman novelist Sarah Grand, the novelist and playwright, Lucy Clifford; the novelist and anti-suffragist, Mary Augusta Ward. It explores Woolf's attitudes to late-Victorian women's philanthropy, the social purity movement, and women's suffrage. Closely tracking the ways in which Woolf both followed and departed from these predecessors, Corbett complicates Woolf's identity as a modernist, her navigation of the literary marketplace, her ambivalence about literary professionalism and the mixing of art and politics, and the emergence of feminism as a persistent concern of her work.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501752472
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Virginia Woolf, throughout her career as a novelist and critic, deliberately framed herself as a modern writer invested in literary tradition but not bound to its conventions; engaged with politics but not a propagandist; a woman of letters but not a "lady novelist." As a result, Woolf ignored or disparaged most of the women writers of her parents' generation, leading feminist critics to position her primarily as a forward-thinking modernist who rejected a stultifying Victorian past. In Behind the Times, Mary Jean Corbett finds that Woolf did not dismiss this history as much as she boldly rewrote it. Exploring the connections between Woolf's immediate and extended family and the broader contexts of late-Victorian literary and political culture, Corbett emphasizes the ongoing significance of the previous generation's concerns and controversies to Woolf's considerable achievements. Behind the Times rereads and revises Woolf's creative works, politics, and criticism in relation to women writers including the New Woman novelist Sarah Grand, the novelist and playwright, Lucy Clifford; the novelist and anti-suffragist, Mary Augusta Ward. It explores Woolf's attitudes to late-Victorian women's philanthropy, the social purity movement, and women's suffrage. Closely tracking the ways in which Woolf both followed and departed from these predecessors, Corbett complicates Woolf's identity as a modernist, her navigation of the literary marketplace, her ambivalence about literary professionalism and the mixing of art and politics, and the emergence of feminism as a persistent concern of her work.
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
Author: John Rylands Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Historical Catalogue of the Printed Editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society, Volume I
Author: T. H. Darlow
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666752193
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666752193
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description