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• ISBN-10: 0192668269 
• ISBN-13: 9780192668264
• Author: Alice Crawford

Unashamedly a book for the bookish, yet accessible and frequently entertaining, this is the first book devoted to how libraries are depicted in imaginative writing. Covering fiction, poetry, and drama from the late Middle Ages to the present, it runs the gamut of British and American literature, as well as examining a range of fiction in other languages—from Rabelais and Cervantes to modern and contemporary French, Italian, Japanese, and Russian writing. While the tropes of the complex catalogue and the bibliomaniacal reader persist throughout the centuries, libraries also emerge as societal battle-sites where issues of personality, gender, cultural power, and national identity are contested repeatedly and often in surprising ways. As well as examining how libraries were deployed in their work by canonical authors from Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Swift to Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Jorge Luis Borges, the volume also examines in detail the haunted libraries of Margaret Oliphant and M. R. James, and a range of much less familiar historic and contemporary authors. Alert to the depiction of librarians as well as of book-rooms and institutional readers, this book will inform, entertain, and delight. At a time when traditional libraries are under pressure, Libraries in Literature shows the power of their lasting fascination.

Table of contents:

1. Rabelais, Cervantes, and Libraries in Fiction
2. Dramatic Libraries
3. Battle-Sites of Books
4. What Are Books for? Darcy’s Library, Crabbe’s The Library, and Shillito’s The Country Book-Club
5. Libraries and the Formation of Character in Nineteenth-Century Novels
6. Margaret Oliphant’s ‘The Library Window’
7. M. R. James’s Libraries
The Demon in the Library
‘The Tractate Middoth’
8. The Body in the Library: Christie and SayersNicola Humble
9. On the Shelf? Women, Librarians, and Agency in Twentieth-Century Fiction
10. The Act of Borrowing; or, Some Libraries in American Literature
11. ‘Modified Bliss’: Libraries in Modern Poetry
12. Borges’s Libraries
13. Library and Scriptorium in Eco’s The Name of the Rose
14. Murakami’s Strange Library
15. Fantastic Books and Where to Find Them: Libraries in Fairy Tale an

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