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.

Curiosities of literature /

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Curiosities of literature /

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Remarks on the disorders of literary men, or an inquiry into the means of preventing the evils usually incident to sedentary and studious habits.

"The remarks offered to the public in the following pages ... first appeared as a series of Essays in the Boston Medical Intelligencer": cf. Preface.

Curiosities of literature.

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Les encouragemens de la jeunesse /

Engraved t.p. counted as a plates.

Eugène Sue /

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Curiosities of literature : first [and second] series /

"Alexandrian Edition."