Literary museums today must respond to new challenges; the traditional image of the author’s home museum as a sacred place of literary pilgrimage centered around a national hero has been questioned, and literary museums have begun to develop new strategies centered not only on biography, but also literary texts, imagined spaces, different readers, historical contexts, architectural concepts, and artistic interventions. As this volume shows, the changing of spaces asks how literary museums create new ways of interlinking real and literary spaces, texts, objects, readers, and tourists.

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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