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

Author:   Nicola J. Watson (Professor of English Literature, Open University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198883548


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   29 June 2023
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Nicola J. Watson (Professor of English Literature, Open University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.542kg
ISBN:  

9780198883548


ISBN 10:   0198883544
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   29 June 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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This smart, well-written book will attract a wide audience through its seamless grafting of literary history, material culture, and museum studies. Highly recommended. All readers. * M. Frank, University of Massachusetts Lowell, CHOICE * ...an engaging journey through Authorland in nine chapters... her [Watson's] writing has the capacity to make us think on more detailed ways about the institutions of literary tourism * Bill Bell, Literary Review * Watson is an assured and intuitive guide to the perhaps slightly introspective world of the writer's house museum. She knows the literature well (there are 92 pages of notes and bibliography to 231 pages of text) and her awareness of critical theory does not come at the cost of clarity of expression. It is a broad-ranging, thoughtful and informative book. * Stephen Clarke, The Johnsonian News Letter * The Author's Effects engagingly insists that we attend to the presence and particularity of its examples, that we share Watson's fascination with the ability of each to effect the author it evokes. * LuAnn McCracken Fletcher, Cedar Crest College , Review 19 *


"This smart, well-written book will attract a wide audience through its seamless grafting of literary history, material culture, and museum studies. Highly recommended. All readers. * M. Frank, University of Massachusetts Lowell, CHOICE * ...an engaging journey through Authorland in nine chapters... her [Watson's] writing has the capacity to make us think on more detailed ways about the institutions of literary tourism * Bill Bell, Literary Review * Watson is an assured and intuitive guide to the perhaps slightly introspective world of the writer's house museum. She knows the literature well (there are 92 pages of notes and bibliography to 231 pages of text) and her awareness of critical theory does not come at the cost of clarity of expression. It is a broad-ranging, thoughtful and informative book. * Stephen Clarke, The Johnsonian News Letter * The Author's Effects engagingly insists that we attend to the presence and particularity of its examples, that we share Watson's fascination with the ability of each to ""effect"" the author it evokes. * LuAnn McCracken Fletcher, Cedar Crest College , Review 19 *"


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Nicola J. Watson trained at Oxford and held posts at Oxford, Harvard, Northwestern, and Indiana Universities before taking up a position at the Open University. A specialist in the literature and culture of the Romantic period, her research focusses on authorial afterlives and the associated histories of literary tourism, literary commemoration, and the literary museum.

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