Ulrike Spring & Johan Schimanski 
Transforming Author Museums [EPUB ebook] 
From Sites of Pilgrimage to Cultural Hubs

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Expanded Spaces and Changing Contexts of  Author Museums
Ulrike Spring, Johan Schimanski and Thea Aarbakke

Part I: Expansion

Chapter 1. New Architecture in Author Museums and Centres
Elin Haugdal

Chapter 2. A Displaced Apartment of a Poet in a Museum: Staging and Reception of Franz Grillparzer in the Wien Museum
Eva-Maria Orosz

Chapter 3. From Cobwebs to a Web-Based Reality: Drawing Young Adults into a Memorial House
Anna Benedek

Chapter 4. Ghostly Voices in the Author Museum
Ulrike Spring and Johan Schimanski

Chapter 5. Unpacking the Book Collection: Following a Guide, a Curator and a Librarian in an Author Museum
Thea Aarbakke

Chapter 6. The Gunnar Ekelöf Room and the Poet’s Widow as Archivist and Author
Helena Bodin

Chapter 7. This Is Not a Set of Guidelines – or How (Not) to Exhibit Literature
Vanessa Zeissig

Part II: Politics

Chapter 8. New Sites of Worship: Sovietization and Literary Museums in Western Borderlands, 1940–79
Anastasia Felcher

Chapter 9. Exposing the Obscurity of the Chinese Literary Establishment: The Destabilizing Power of Author Museums
Emily Graf

Chapter 10. South African Literature, Author Museums and Narrative Expansion: The Olive Schreiner House
Dana Ryan Lande

Chapter 11. Troublesome Heritage in the Home of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Marianne Egeland

Chapter 12. Housing World Literature: The Norwegian Ibsen Museums
Narve Fulsås

Epilogue: Author Museums and Democratization
Ulrike Spring, Johan Schimanski and Thea Aarbakke

Index

Thea Aarbakke is a curator at the National Medical Museum/The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology. During this book project she was a doctoral fellow at the University of Oslo/Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, and now holds a Ph D in Museology. Her thesis is a study of contemporary exhibition practices at literary museums in Norway.