{"abbreviations":{},"aggregated_contexts":{},"claims":[],"contexts":[],"equations":[],"facts":["the first book to describe how the writer\u2019s house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon","It ransacks more than 100 museums and archives to tell the stories of celebrated"],"findings":["The book \"The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums\" explores the emergence and endurance of writer's house museums as a cultural phenomenon, tracing how authors' personal belongings and spaces became treasured relics in the 18th and 19th centuries and are now showcased in over 100 museums and archives."],"headline":"The Author\u2019s Effects: On Writer\u2019s House Museums is the first book to describe how the writer\u2019s house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America","key_statements":["The Author\u2019s Effects: On Writer\u2019s House Museums is the first book to describe how the writer\u2019s house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America","Exploring the ways that authorship has been mythologized and materialized through the conventions of the writer\u2019s house museum, The Author\u2019s Effects anatomizes the how and why of the emergence, establishment, and endurance of popular notions of authorship in relation to creativity. It traces how and why the writer\u2019s bodily remains, possessions, and spaces came to be treasured in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as a prelude to the appearance of formal writer\u2019s house museums. It ransacks more than 100 museums and archives to tell the stories of celebrated and paradigmatic relics\u2014Burns\u2019 skull, Keats\u2019 hair, Petrarch\u2019s cat, Poe\u2019s raven, Bront\u00eb\u2019s bonnet, Dickinson\u2019s dress, Shakespeare\u2019s chair, Austen\u2019s desk, Woolf\u2019s spectacles, Hawthorne\u2019s window, Freud\u2019s mirror, Johnson\u2019s coffee-pot, and Bulgakov\u2019s stove, amongst many others"],"keyword_relevance":{},"keywords":["Writers House","Effects\nAbstract The Author","writer house museum","nineteenth century","North America","Authors Effects"],"metadata":{"abstract":"Abstract The Author\u2019s Effects: On Writer\u2019s House Museums is the first book to describe how the writer\u2019s house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North America. Exploring the ways that authorship has been mythologized and materialized through the conventions of the writer\u2019s house museum, The Author\u2019s Effects anatomizes the how and why of the emergence, establishment, and endurance of popular notions of authorship in relation to creativity. It traces how and why the writer\u2019s bodily remains, possessions, and spaces came to be treasured in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as a prelude to the appearance of formal writer\u2019s house museums. It ransacks more than 100 museums and archives to tell the stories of celebrated and paradigmatic relics\u2014Burns\u2019 skull, Keats\u2019 hair, Petrarch\u2019s cat, Poe\u2019s raven, Bront\u00eb\u2019s bonnet, Dickinson\u2019s dress, Shakespeare\u2019s chair, Austen\u2019s desk, Woolf\u2019s spectacles, Hawthorne\u2019s window, Freud\u2019s mirror, Johnson\u2019s coffee-pot, and Bulgakov\u2019s stove, amongst many others. It investigates houses within which nineteenth-century writers mythologized themselves and their work\u2014Thoreau\u2019s cabin and Dumas\u2019 tower, Scott\u2019s Abbotsford and Irving\u2019s Sunnyside. And it tracks literary tourists of the past to such long-celebrated literary homes as Petrarch\u2019s Arqu\u00e0, Rousseau\u2019s \u00cele St Pierre, and Shakespeare\u2019s Stratford to find out what they thought and felt and did there, discovering deep continuities with the redevelopment of Shakespeare\u2019s New Place for 2016","affiliations":["The Open University"],"author":"Nicola J. Watson","cited_by":14,"cited_by_api_url":"","date":2020,"full_date":"2020-01-09T00:00:00Z","identifiers":{"doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198847571.001.0001","pmcid":"","pmid":"","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198847571.001.0001"},"journal":null,"language":"en","message":"Document contains no extractable text","page":null,"source":"OpenAlex","title":"The Author's Effects","type":"book","volume":null,"word_count":"221"},"participants":[],"populations":[],"prevalence":[],"processes":[],"reference_links":[],"sections":{"future_work":[],"limitations":[]},"species":[],"statistics":[],"structured_content":[],"structured_summary":{},"study_features":{"snapshot_conclusions":[],"snapshot_methods":[],"snapshot_results":[]},"summary":[],"unstructured_content":null}