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Chapter 6 meditates upon the function of glass as a medium of ‘enchantment’ in the writer’s house museum. It considers how and to what effect objects are co-located and assembled within the vitrine as the basic meme of the museum and, with special reference to Virginia Woolf’s Monk’s House, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Old Manse, and Sigmund Freud’s apartment in Vienna, how eye-glasses, windows, and mirrors relate to tropes of authorial vision and authorial invisibility and immateriality. It argues that glass is the material by which the museum thinks through, dramatizes, and fetishizes impossibilities: the desire to see the writer in the flesh, the desire to see what the writer once saw; the desire to share the writer’s vision. |
