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Sheila Liming
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R411
Discovery Miles 4 110
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton's The Age of
Innocence depicts with masterful irony and nostalgic detail a
vanished world-the glittering, elite society of "Gilded Age" New
York-at the height of its power and on the brink of its demise.
When Newland Archer's comfortable future is thrown into uncertainty
by the arrival of the brazenly unconventional Ellen Olenska, subtle
consequences unfold as Wharton's characters navigate conflicts of
passion and propriety, demonstrating the genius of a great American
novelist "at the top of her game" (Ta-Nehisi Coates).
Examining the personal library and the making of self When writer
Edith Wharton died in 1937, without any children, her library of
more than five thousand volumes was divided and subsequently sold.
Decades later, it was reassembled and returned to The Mount, her
historic Massachusetts estate. What a Library Means to a Woman
examines personal libraries as technologies of self-creation in
modern America, focusing on Wharton and her remarkable collection
of books. Sheila Liming explores the connection between libraries
and self-making in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century
American culture, from the 1860s to the 1930s. She tells the story
of Wharton's library in concert with Wharton scholarship and
treatises from this era concerning the wider fields of book
history, material and print culture, and the histories (and
pathologies) of collecting. Liming's study blends literary and
historical analysis while engaging with modern discussions about
gender, inheritance, and hoarding. It offers a review of the many
meanings of a library collection, while reading one specific
collection in light of its owner's literary celebrity. What a
Library Means to a Woman was born from Liming's ongoing work
digitizing the Wharton library collection. It ultimately argues for
a multifaceted understanding of authorship by linking Wharton's
literary persona to her library, which was, as she saw it, the site
of her self-making.
Examining the personal library and the making of self When writer
Edith Wharton died in 1937, without any children, her library of
more than five thousand volumes was divided and subsequently sold.
Decades later, it was reassembled and returned to The Mount, her
historic Massachusetts estate. What a Library Means to a Woman
examines personal libraries as technologies of self-creation in
modern America, focusing on Wharton and her remarkable collection
of books. Sheila Liming explores the connection between libraries
and self-making in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century
American culture, from the 1860s to the 1930s. She tells the story
of Wharton's library in concert with Wharton scholarship and
treatises from this era concerning the wider fields of book
history, material and print culture, and the histories (and
pathologies) of collecting. Liming's study blends literary and
historical analysis while engaging with modern discussions about
gender, inheritance, and hoarding. It offers a review of the many
meanings of a library collection, while reading one specific
collection in light of its owner's literary celebrity. What a
Library Means to a Woman was born from Liming's ongoing work
digitizing the Wharton library collection. It ultimately argues for
a multifaceted understanding of authorship by linking Wharton's
literary persona to her library, which was, as she saw it, the site
of her self-making.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books
about the hidden lives of ordinary things. From its origins in the
late 19th century to its decline in the 21st, Sheila Liming's
Office narrates a cultural history of a place that has arguably
been the primary site of labor in the postmodern economy. During
the post-war decades of the 20th century, the office rose to
prominence in culture, achieving an iconic status that is reflected
in television, film, literature, and throughout the history of
advertising. Most people are well versed in the cliches of office
culture, despite evidence that an increasing number of us no longer
work in offices. With the development of computing technology in
the 1980s and 90s, the office underwent many changes. Microsoft
debuted its suite of multitasking applications known as Microsoft
Office in 1989, firing the first shot in the war for the office's
survival. This book therefore poses the question: how did culture
become organized around the idea of the office, and how will it
change if the office become extinct? Object Lessons is published in
partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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Codex (Paperback)
David Haeselin, Sheila Liming, Thora Brylowe
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R271
Discovery Miles 2 710
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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