Libraries in literature / edited by Alice Crawford and Robert Crawford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crawford, Alice, 1958- editor.

Crawford, Robert, 1959- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Libraries in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This collection explores how libraries have been represented in English-language fiction, drama, and poetry from the early modern period to the present day. It 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.

Contents:

Intro

Halftitle page

Title page

Copyright page

Acknowledgements

Contents

About the Contributors

Introduction

1. Rabelais, Cervantes, and Libraries in Fiction

2. Dramatic Libraries

3. Battle-Sites of Books

4. What Are Books for? Darcy's Library, Crabbe's The Library, and Shillito's The Country Book-Club

5. Libraries and the Formation of Character in Nineteenth-Century Novels

6. Margaret Oliphant's 'The Library Window'

7. M. R. James's Libraries

The Demon in the Library

'The Tractate Middoth'

8. The Body in the Library: Christie and Sayers

9. On the Shelf? Women, Librarians, and Agency in Twentieth-Century Fiction

10. The Act of Borrowing

or, Some Libraries in American Literature

11. 'Modified Bliss': Libraries in Modern Poetry

12. Borges's Libraries

13. Library and Scriptorium in Eco's The Name of the Rose

14. Murakami's Strange Library

15. Fantastic Books and Where to Find Them: Libraries in Fairy Tale and Fantasy

Coda: Libraries and Political Identities

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 6, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Crawford, Alice Libraries in Literature

ISBN:

0-19-194616-8

0-19-266825-0

0-19-266826-9