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Love Among the Archives: Writing the Lives of George Scharf, Victorian Bachelor
Helena Michie
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Description for Love Among the Archives: Writing the Lives of George Scharf, Victorian Bachelor
Paperback. 9781474406642. Num Pages: 256 pages, 25 b& illustrations. BIC Classification: ACV; AKLB; DN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
Two Literary Critics Romancing the Archive at London's National Portrait Gallery. Part biography, part detective novel, part love story, and part meta archival meditation, Love Among the Archives is an experiment in writing a life. Our subject is Sir George Scharf, the founding director of the National Portrait Gallery in London, well known and respected in the Victorian period, strangely obscure in our own. We tell of discovering Scharf's souvenirs of a social life among the highest classes, and then learning he was the self made son of an impoverished immigrant. As we comb through 50 years of daily diaries, ... Read more
Two Literary Critics Romancing the Archive at London's National Portrait Gallery. Part biography, part detective novel, part love story, and part meta archival meditation, Love Among the Archives is an experiment in writing a life. Our subject is Sir George Scharf, the founding director of the National Portrait Gallery in London, well known and respected in the Victorian period, strangely obscure in our own. We tell of discovering Scharf's souvenirs of a social life among the highest classes, and then learning he was the self made son of an impoverished immigrant. As we comb through 50 years of daily diaries, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474406642
SKU
V9781474406642
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About Helena Michie
Helena Michie is Agnes C. Arnold Professor in Humanities and Professor English, Rice University. Robyn Warhol is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English, The Ohio State University.
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