Shelf Lives
On Nostalgic Libraries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2428282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Chrostowska, S D Chrostowska (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 9-21 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0899-2363 • E-ISSN: 1527-8018 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/08992363-3324992 |
| OpenAlex | W2283134936 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
This short essay considers the increasingly nostalgic life of physical books. From immaculate leather-bound collections to "dummy" libraries, in private homes or department stores, since at least the mid-nineteenth century, old books have enjoyed past-directed affective relationships with users and consumers, communicating continuity with, appreciation of, and longing for aspects of time past. These relationships, falling along a spectrum from library-as-utility to library-as-simulation, can be mapped onto different kinds of nostalgic experience
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Media studies · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · History · Japanese History and Culture · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |