The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums

by Nicola J Watson and Watson

Book Overview

The Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer's house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America. Exploring the ways that authorship has been mythologised through the conventions of the writer's house museum, The Author's Effects anatomises the how and why of the emergence, establishment, and endurance of popular notions of authorship in relation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198883544
• ISBN13: 9780198883548
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 8.9"