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9781771127141: Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books
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ISBN 10: 1771127147 ISBN 13: 9781771127141
Editorial: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2026

Sinopsis

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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Jason Camlot is Professor of English and Research Chair in Literature and Sound Studies at Concordia University. Recent books include Phonopoetics (Stanford, 2019), CanLit Across Media (MQUP, 2019) and Vlarf (MQUP 2021). He is director of the SSHRC-funded SpokenWeb research partnership that focuses on literary audio collections.



J.A. Weingarten is a Professor at Fanshawe College and the author of Sharing the Past (2019) and the co-editor of Unpacking the Personal Library (2022). He has also published numerous articles and papers on Canadian literature and culture. He lives with his family in Guelph, Ontario, where he can be found carefully tending to his tomato garden.

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Editorial
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Año de publicación
2026
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1771127147
ISBN 13 
9781771127141
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Número de páginas
288
Editor
Camlot Jason, Weingarten J.A.
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