Roomscape : women writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf / / Susan David Bernstein

• Autore: Bernstein Susan David
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 231 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 820.99287
• Soggetto topico: English literature - Women authors - History and cricitism; Women authors - Societies, etc; Reading rooms - England - London - History; Authorship
• Classificazione: HG 121
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: COVER; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Exteriority: Women Readers at the British Museum; Chapter 2. Translation Work and Women's Labour from the British Museum; Chapter 3. Poetry in the Round: Mutual Mentorships; Chapter 4. Researching Romola: George Eliot and Dome Consciousness; Chapter 5. Reading Woolf's Roomscapes; Coda: Closing Years and Afterlives; Appendix: Notable Readers; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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 uphold 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Roomscape
• ISBN: 0-7486-8436-0; 1-299-48386-0; 0-7486-8161-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816643103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.