MoDA Reading List – Writing With Objects

A selection of key texts on the theme of writing about the material world, both fiction and non-fiction. This list has been compiled by staff at the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture

Recommended Reading

[Podcast] Baeza Ruiz, Ana; Barnard, Josie.(2020) Episode 5: Home Writer – Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture (MoDA). Available at: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-mdrpn-d92a4d and https://moda.mdx.ac.uk/conversations/episode-5-home-writer/.

[Book] Waal, Edmund de.(2011) The hare with amber eyes : a hidden inheritance. London. Vintage. Find it on MDX Library Search 

[Book] Connor, S. (2011) ‘Paraphernalia: the Curious Lives of Magical Things’, New Statesman. London: New Statesman, Ltd, p. 51–. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Book] Lubar, Steven D; Kingery, W. D.(1993) History from things : essays on material culture. Washington ;. Smithsonian Institution Press. Find it on MDX Library Search.

[Article] Leonard, E,Read.(1958/ 1999) I, Pencil: My Family Tree as told to Leonard E. Read. Econlib Books. Available at: http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html

[Book] MacGregor, Neil.(2011) A history of the world in 100 objects. England. Allen Lane. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Book] Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.(1981) The yellow wallpaper. London. Virago. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Book] Turkle, Sherry.(2007) Evocative objects : things we think with. Cambridge. MIT. Find it on MDX Library Search

[Book] Lynn,Knight.(2017) The Button Box, The Story of Women in the 20th Century Told Through the Clothes They Wore. Vintage   https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1098356/the-button-box/

[Article] Ogut, S.T. (2016) ‘Novel or Museum? Reading Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence, Istanbul, Turkey (museum review)’, Design issues, 32(4), pp. 91–96. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_r_00419. Find it on MDX Library Search