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Unpacking the personal library : the public and private life of books / edited by Jason Camlot and J. A. Weingarten.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Book collecting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (284 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Unpacking the Personal Library is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in relation to public libraries. Collectively, the chapters articulate a poetics of the personal library within its extended social, aesthetic and cultural contexts."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- INTRODUCTION Private, Public, and Personal Libraries In Situ and in Circulation
- PART I: Private Libraries Made Public
- CHAPTER 1 In Memory of Alexandria
- CHAPTER 2 William Osler and the Collecting of the Middle Ages
- CHAPTER 3 "A Gift to the Nation Worth While": The Library of William Lyon Mackenzie King
- CHAPTER 4 Personal Libraries of the State
- CHAPTER 5 Remaindering the Difference: Book Collections of Radical Protest Libraries
- CHAPTER 6 Serious House: On the Future of Library Print Collections
- PART II: The Personal Library as a Field of Interpretation
- CHAPTER 7 Virginia Woolf's Poetry Library
- CHAPTER 8 Unpacking Duncan's Books: Remarks on the Personal Library of Robert Duncan
- CHAPTER 9 Her Books Filed for Divorce: Embeddedness and the Question of Belonging in Relation to Sheila and Wilfred Watson's Personal Library
- CHAPTER 10 Al Purdy's Lives and Libraries: Speculations on Poetry and Biography
- CHAPTER 11 jwcurry's Room 3o2 Books: The Small-Press Bookstore as Library and Archive
- CONCLUSION "In My End Is My Beginning": The Library as Heraclitean Archive
- Bibliography
- Author Biographies
- Copyright Acknowledgements
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781771125727
- 1771125721
- OCLC:
- 1336989339
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