An edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in relation to public libraries. Collectively, the chapters articulate a poetics of the personal library within its extended social, aesthetic and cultural contexts.
An edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in relation to public libraries. Collectively, the chapters articulate a poetics of the personal library within its extended social, aesthetic and cultural contexts.
Jason Camlot is Professor of English and Research Chair in Literature and Sound Studies at Concordia University. Recent books include Phonopoetics (Stanford, 2019), CanLit Across Media (MQUP, 2019) and Vlarf (MQUP 2021). He is director of the SSHRC-funded SpokenWeb research partnership that focuses on literary audio collections. J.A. Weingarten is a Professor in the School of Language and Liberal Studies at Fanshawe College. He is also the author of Sharing the Past (UTP, 2019), as well as more than three dozen articles, book reviews, and papers on Canadian arts and culture.
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* 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
* 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
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