Literary Museums at Home. Exhibiting and Experiencing Literature Indoors

, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, Pages: 162, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:3 b/w, 74 col., Languages: English, French. ISBN 9782503599960.

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Summary This book, at the intersection of material culture, thing theory, fiction and museology, explores the different ways in which literature is exhibited and appropriated within the domestic, intimate sphere of the home. Certain daily practices involve the exhibition of literature in ways that are similar to those encountered in a museum. Interior decoration and design, bibliomania, homeware, fashion items, not to mention board games or doll's houses, may all be considered means of fetishising literature within the home. While the book combines academic chapters, from a wide range of literary genres, across centuries and various countries, and interviews of museum directors who currently live in a museum house, it draws attention to the duality that characterises such domestic literary landscape, which simultaneously exhibit the literary and produce literature. The book delves into the past or present ways in which writers and literature lovers inhabit their home, especially when these homes become museum spaces during their lifetime, and when the objects accumulated by these literati-curators are intimately linked to their writing. TABLE OF CONTENTS Aknowledgements Introduction. Curating Literature Indoors. Breaking the Wall Between Homes and Museums Caroline Marie Living in a Museum, Opening the Home. A Conversation with Dylan Jonas Stone, artist. Dylan Jonas Stone: Life in a Living Archive Caroline Marie Part One. Inhabiting a Literary Home: Workshops where Literature is Manufactured - Habiter une maison litt raire : la fabrique du litt raire Auguste Comte en son appartement mus e : bureau, glise et c nacle (1841-1857) David Labreure Presqu' le des avant-gardes : formes de vie litt raire dans l'appartement d'un rudit nantais. Les m diations mus ales d'un espace intime Laurence Perrigault & B reng re Voisin Habiter un mus e, ouvrir la maison. Conversation avec Nicole Bertolt, mandataire de l'oeuvre de Boris Vian. Parlez-moi de Boris : Vivant, l'appartement de Vian Anne Chassagnol & Caroline Marie Part Two. At Home with Literature: Museums of the Touch - La litt rature la maison : un mus e du toucher Habiter la litt rature, vivre en intimit avec le po te : ventails, jardins et encriers en Chine, XVe-XVIIIe si cles C dric Laurent Home to Roost: French Literary Games of Goose, from the 1670s to the 1870s Gemma Tidman Doll's Houses and Miniature Museums: Rumer Godden's Salvaged (Literary) Homes Chloe Flower Living in a Museum, Opening the Home. A Conversation with Elizabeth Emery, Professor of French at Montclair State University. The Invisible Woman Writer and Collector: How Cl mence d'Ennery was Erased from her Own House Museum Anne Chassagnol Part Three. Self-Reflexive Hybrid Spaces: Poetic Counter-Museums - Mise en abyme d'espaces hybrides : un contre-mus e po tique Automuseografie . Collections personnelles et r cit de soi dans l'iconotexte italien contemporain Lavinia Torti House Museums in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry Virginie Trachsler Habiter un mus e, ouvrir la maison. Conversation avec Alexia Gugg mos, critique d'art et fondatrice du Mus e du sourire. Vivre en po tesse dans le Mus e du sourire Anne Chassagnol & Caroline Marie Notes on Contributors