@book{8398,
  author = {Barbara Black},
  title = {On Exhibit: Victorians and Their Museums},
  year = {2000},
  pages = {242 pp.},
  publisher = {University Press of Virginia},
  address = {Charlottesville, VA},
  isbn = {9780813918976},
  note = {Examines impulse for collecting, especially in London, England.

Contents:
The museum crowd : fragments shored against their ruin 
Fugitive articulation of an all-obliterated tongue : Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and the politics of collecting 
Acquired taste : the museum enterprise comes home 
A gallery of readings : rendezvous in the museum 
"The works on the wall must take their chance" : a poetics of acquisition 
An empire's great expectations : the museum in decline 
Coda : in Freud's study},
  language = {English},
}