Libraries in Literature
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 September 2022
- ISBN 9780192855732
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 240x164x23 mm
- Weight 612 g
- Language English 450
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Short description:
A collection that explores how libraries have been represented in English-language fiction, drama, and poetry from the early modern period to the present day. This accessible volume covers literature from Don Quixote to the work of M. R. James, Agatha Christie, and Haruki Murakami and draws together original essays by prestigious contributors.
MoreLong description:
Unashamedly a book for the bookish, yet accessible and frequently entertaining, this is the first book devoted to how libraries are depicted in imaginative writing. Covering fiction, poetry, and drama from the late Middle Ages to the present, it runs the gamut of British and American literature, as well as examining a range of fiction in other languages--from Rabelais and Cervantes to modern and contemporary French, Italian, Japanese, and Russian writing.
While the tropes of the complex catalogue and the bibliomaniacal reader persist throughout the centuries, libraries also emerge as societal battle-sites where issues of personality, gender, cultural power, and national identity are contested repeatedly and often in surprising ways. As well as examining how libraries were deployed in their work by canonical authors from Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Swift to Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Jorge Luis Borges, the volume also examines in detail the haunted libraries of Margaret Oliphant and M. R. James, and a range of much less familiar historic and contemporary authors. Alert to the depiction of librarians as well as of book-rooms and institutional readers, this book will inform, entertain, and delight. At a time when traditional libraries are under pressure, Libraries in Literature shows the power of their lasting fascination.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Rabelais, Cervantes, and Libraries in Fiction
Dramatic Libraries
Battle-Sites of Books
What Are Books For? Darcy's Library, Crabbe's The Library, and Shillito's The Country Book Club
Libraries and the Formation of Character in Nineteenth-Century Novels
Margaret Oliphant's 'The Library Window'
M. R. James's Libraries
The Body in the Library: Christie and Sayers
On the Shelf? Women, Librarians and Agency in Twentieth-Century Fiction
The Act of Borrowing; or, Some Libraries in American Literature
'Modified Bliss': Libraries in Modern Poetry
Borges's Libraries
Library and Scriptorium in The Name of the Rose
Murakami's Strange Library
Fantastic Books and Where to Find Them: Libraries in Fairytale and Fantasy
Coda: Libraries and Political Identities
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