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Literature, museums, and national identity; or, why are there so many writers' house museums in Britain?
Writers’ houses constitute the largest and oldest segment of historic house museums dedicated to famous persons in the United Kingdom. Litterateurs tend to ascribe ‘lit houses’ to the ineffable magic of readers’ connections to writers. By contrast, my analysis deploys the analytic of cultural politics to suggest that writers’ house museums can more fully be understood as assertions of national identity. The elision of language with national distinction is subliminal in everyday life, but can be brought to prominence by historicising the nations of the British Isles, and the practice of writing in English.
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Museum history journalVolume
8Issue
2Pagination
229 - 246Publisher
W. S. Maney & SonLocation
Philadelphia, Pa.Publisher DOI
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1936-9816eISSN
1936-9824Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2015, W.S. Maney & SonUsage metrics
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