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Unpacking the Personal Library - The Public and Private Life of Books (Hardcover)
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Unpacking the Personal Library - The Public and Private Life of Books (Hardcover)
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Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of
Books is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural
meaning and significance of private book collections in relation to
public libraries. Contributors explore libraries at particular
moments in their history across a wide range of cases, and includes
Alberto Manguel's account of the Library of Alexandria as well as
chapters on library collecting in the middle ages, the libraries of
prime ministers and foreign embassies, protest libraries and the
slow transformation of university libraries, and the stories of the
personal libraries of Virginia Woolf, Robert Duncan, Sheila Watson,
Al Purdy and others. The book shows how the history of the library
is really a history of collection, consolidation, migration,
dispersal, and integration, where each story negotiates private and
public spaces. Unpacking the Personal Library builds on and
interrogates theories and approaches from library and archive
studies, the history of the book, reading, authorship and
publishing. Collectively, the chapters articulate a critical
poetics of the personal library within its extended social,
aesthetic and cultural contexts.
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