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Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Crawford, Alice, 1958- (Editor), Crawford, Robert, 1959- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Libraries in literature.
English literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.