{"product_id":"the-authors-effects-9780198883548","title":"The Authors Effects","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Watson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Author's Effects\u003c\/em\u003e anatomises the how and why of the emergence, establishment, and endurance of popular notions of authorship in relation to creativity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It traces how and why the writer's bodily remains, possessions, and spaces came to be treasured in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as a prelude to the appearance of formal writer's house museums. It ransacks more than 100 museums and archives to tell the stories of celebrated and paradigmatic relics--Burns' skull, Keats' hair, Petrarch's cat, Poe's raven, Brontë's bonnet, Dickinson's dress, Shakespeare's chair, Austen's desk, Woolf's spectacles, Hawthorne's window, Freud's mirror, Johnson's coffee-pot and Bulgakov's stove, amongst many others. It investigates houses within which nineteenth-century writers mythologised themselves and their work--Thoreau's cabin and Dumas' tower, Scott's Abbotsford and Irving's Sunnyside. And it tracks literary tourists of the past to such long-celebrated literary homes as Petrarch's Arquà , Rousseau's Ile St Pierre, and Shakespeare's Stratford to find out what they thought and felt and did, discovering deep continuities with the redevelopment of Shakespeare's New Place for 2016.","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45035442077847,"sku":"9780198883548","price":2966.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198883548.webp?v=1769211863","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-authors-effects-9780198883548","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}