{"product_id":"unpacking-the-personal-library-the-public-and-private-life-of-books-paperback","title":"Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJason Camlot\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJ. a. Weingarten\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books\u003c\/i\u003e is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in relation to public libraries. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors explore libraries at particular moments in their history across a wide range of cases, and includes Alberto Manguel's account of the Library of Alexandria as well as chapters on library collecting in the middle ages, the libraries of prime ministers and foreign embassies, protest libraries and the slow transformation of university libraries, and the stories of the personal libraries of Virginia Woolf, Robert Duncan, Sheila Watson, Al Purdy and others. The book shows how the history of the library is really a history of collection, consolidation, migration, dispersal, and integration, where each story negotiates private and public spaces. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnpacking the Personal Library \u003c\/i\u003ebuilds on and interrogates theories and approaches from library and archive studies, the history of the book, reading, authorship and publishing. Collectively, the chapters articulate a critical poetics of the personal library within its extended social, aesthetic and cultural contexts.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJason Camlot \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of English and Research Chair in Literature and Sound Studies at Concordia University. Recent books include \u003ci\u003ePhonopoetics \u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford, 2019), \u003ci\u003eCanLit Across Media\u003c\/i\u003e (MQUP, 2019) and \u003ci\u003eVlarf\u003c\/i\u003e (MQUP 2021). He is director of the SSHRC-funded SpokenWeb research partnership that focuses on literary audio collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ.A. Weingarten \u003c\/b\u003eis a Professor in the School of Language and Liberal Studies at Fanshawe College. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eSharing the Past \u003c\/i\u003e (UTP, 2019), the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Weather and the Words: The Selected Letters of John Newlove, 1963-2003\u003c\/i\u003e (WLUP, 2025)as well as more than three dozen articles, book reviews, and papers on Canadian arts and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 16, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53367504765235,"sku":"9781771127141","price":63.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/DXpTqCN3UQ9781771127141.webp?v=1779196192","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/unpacking-the-personal-library-the-public-and-private-life-of-books-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}