Roomscape: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot to Virginia Woolf

by Susan David Bernstein

Book Overview

Examines the Reading Room of the British Museum using documentary, theoretical, historical, and literary sources
Roomscape explores a specific site--the Reading Room of the British Museum--as a space of imaginative potential in relation to the emergence of modern women writers in Victorian and early twentieth-century London. Drawing on archival materials, Roomscape is the first study to integrate documentary, historical,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748697942
• ISBN13: 9780748697946
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"