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Author Hoberman, Ruth.

Title Museum trouble : Edwardian fiction and the emergence of modernism / Ruth Hoberman.

Imprint Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  823.9120935 H653m 2011    ---  Available
Description xi, 236 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-226) and index.
Contents Aesthetic value in flux -- The mind behind the museum: constructing the art professional -- Museum gothic: objects that 'tell' -- Getting it wrong: museumgoers and their bodies -- The British museum and the problem of knowledge -- Museum dreams.
Subject English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Museums in literature.
Museums -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.
ISBN 9780813931265 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813931266 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813931364 (ebk.)
0813931363 (ebk.)
Standard No. 40019612027

 
    
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