{"product_id":"unpacking-the-personal-library-the-public-and-private-life-of-books-9781771127141","title":"Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books\u003c\/i\u003e is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in relation to public libraries. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors explore libraries at particular moments in their history across a wide range of cases, and includes Alberto Manguel's account of the Library of Alexandria as well as chapters on library collecting in the middle ages, the libraries of prime ministers and foreign embassies, protest libraries and the slow transformation of university libraries, and the stories of the personal libraries of Virginia Woolf, Robert Duncan, Sheila Watson, Al Purdy and others. The book shows how the history of the library is really a history of collection, consolidation, migration, dispersal, and integration, where each story negotiates private and public spaces. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnpacking the Personal Library \u003c\/i\u003ebuilds on and interrogates theories and approaches from library and archive studies, the history of the book, reading, authorship and publishing. Collectively, the chapters articulate a critical poetics of the personal library within its extended social, aesthetic and cultural contexts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jason Camlot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wilfrid Laurier University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771127141","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45486759411849,"sku":"9781771127141","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_b5918b88-f444-4e6b-a23e-c02630deacb7.jpg?v=1775543240","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/unpacking-the-personal-library-the-public-and-private-life-of-books-9781771127141","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}