Museum Trouble: Edwardian Fiction and the Emergence of Modernism - Hardcover

Ruth Hoberman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813931266 ISBN 13: 9780813931265

Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 2011

Synopsis

Focuses on fiction written between 1890 and 1914 and the ways in which it engaged the issues dramatised by and within the museum.

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Review:

Museum Trouble is a highly original and substantial contribution to scholarship on turn-of-the-twentieth-century British literature, visual art, and culture.

--Ann Ardis, University of Delaware, author of Modernism and Cultural Conflict, 1880-1922

Ruth Hoberman enlists an array of literary texts to illuminate her claim that modernism emerged not simply from the repudiated ruins of Victorian realism but instead from "the conflicts and ironies dramatized in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century museum narratives" (166).... Museum Trouble makes a strong case for how modernists depended on such public institutions in order to dismantle them in form and thery.... There is a wealth of historical material in this book.... Organized and displayed well, Museum Trouble is its own verbal museum of Edwardian literary artifacts.

--Journal of British Studies

The Conjunction of literary history and museum studies explored in Museum Trouble represents an exciting new interdisciplnary field within the Humanities, and the book offers a timely and highly readable introduction to it.

--Rupert Richard Arrowsmith, University College London "Modernism/modernity "

Hoberman's Museum Trouble is a readable and authoritative tract on Edwardian museum history, culture, and literature and would inform both the advanced student and the professional scholar.

--Marcia Farrell, Wilkes University "James Joyce Quarterly "

In her discussion of the development of museums at the turn of the twentieth century, Hoberman reveals an important portion of the impetus for the emergence of modernism at that time.

--Nanette Norris, Royal Military College St. Jean "The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association "

About the Author:

Ruth Hoberman is Professor of English at Eastern Illinois University and the author of Modernizing Lives: Experiments in English Biography, 1910-1939 and Gendering Classicism: The Ancient World in Twentieth-Century Women's Historical Fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0813931266
• ISBN 13: 9780813931265
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240