TY - SER
AU - Barbara Black
CY - Charlottesville, VA
LA - English
N1 - 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
PB - University Press of Virginia
PP - Charlottesville, VA
PY - 2000
SN - 9780813918976
EP - 242 pp.
TI - On Exhibit: Victorians and Their Museums
ER -