Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-335) and index.
Contents:
Dangerous Passions -- James's Human Bibelots -- Sardanapalus's Hoard -- The Collector in a Collectivist State -- Trash-Talking in The Arcades Project -- The Collector and His Circle -- Einstein's "Critical Dictionary" -- Hoarding in a Digital Age.
Summary:
"Rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice that flourishes beyond institutions like museums or archives and examines the relationship between literary modernism and twentieth-century practices of collecting objects through three author-collectors, Walter Benjamin, Carl Einstein, and Henry James"-- Provided by publisher.
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