Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books

ISBN-13: 9781771125680 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

Spis treści

• Introduction - Private, Public and Personal Libraries In Situ and In Circulation – Jason Camlot
• Part I: Private Libraries Made Public
• 1. In Memory of Alexandria – Alberto Manguel
• 2. William Osler and the Collecting of the Middle Ages – Anna Dysert
• 3. A Gift to the Nation Worth While”: The Library of William Lyon Mackenzie King – Meaghan Scanlon
• 4. Personal Libraries of the State – Bart Vautour
• 5. Remaindering the Difference: Book Collections of Radical Protest Libraries – Sherrin Frances
• 6. Serious House: On the Future of Library Print Collections – Andrew Stauffer
• Part II: The Personal Library as a Field of Interpretation
• 7. The Promise of Paradise: Reading, Researching, and Using the Private Library: Virginia Woolf’s Poetry Library – Emily Kopley
• 8. Unpacking Duncan’s Books: Remarks on the Personal Library of Robert Duncan – James Maynard
• 9. “Her Books Filed for Divorce”: Embeddedness and the Question of Belonging in Relation to Sheila and Wilfred Watson’s Personal Library – Linda Morra
• 10. Al Purdy’s Lives and Libraries: A Bibliographical Essay – Nicholas Bradley
• 11. jwcurry’s Room 3o2 Books: The Small Press Bookstore as Library and Archive – Cameron Anstee
• Conclusion—Jeffrey Aaron Weingarten
• CONTRIBUTORS
• Jason Camlot (Concordia University) – Montreal, QC, Canada
• Jeffrey Aaron Weingarten (Fanshawe College) – Toronto, ON, Canada
• Alberto Manguel (former Director of the National Library of Argentina) – Bueonos Aires, Argentina, and Ottawa, ON, Canada
• Anna Dysert (McGIll University) – Montreal, QC, Canada
• Meaghan Scanlon (Library and Archives Canada) – Ottawa, ON, Canada
• Bart Vautour (Dalhousie University) – Halifax, NS, Canada
• Sherrin Frances (Saginaw Valley State University) – University Center, MI, USA
• Andrew Stauffer (University of Virginia) – Charolottesville, VA, USA
• Emily Kopley (Concordia University) – Montreal, QC, Canada
• James Maynard (SUNY, Buffalo) – Buffalo, NY, USA
• Linda Morra (Bishop’s University) – Montreal, QC, Canada
• Nicholas Bradley (University of Victoria) – Victorian, BC, Canada
• Cameron Anstee (Independent Scholar) – Ottawa, ON, Canada