Intersectional Encounters in the Nineteenth-Century Archive - New Essays on Power and Discourse

Rachel Bryant Davies and Erin Johnson-Williams lead a cast of renowned scholars to initiate an interdisciplinary conversation about the mechanisms of power that have shaped the nineteenth-century archive, to ask: What is a nineteenth-century archive, broadly defined?This landmark collection of essays will broach critical and topical questions about how the complex discourses of power involved in constructions of the nineteenth-century archive have impacted, and continue to impact, constructions of knowledge across disciplinary boundaries, and beyond academic confines. The essays, written from a range of disciplinary perspectives, grapple with urgent problems of how to deal with potentially sensitive nineteenth-century archival items, both within academic scholarship and in present-day public-facing institutions, which often reflect erotic, colonial and imperial, racist, sexist, violent, or elitist ideologies.Each contribution grapples with these questions from a range of perspectives: Musicology, Classics, English, History, Visual Culture, and Museums and Archives. The result is far-reaching historical excavation of archival experiences.>

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• Authors: Dav, Rachel Bryant Davies, Erin Johnson-Williams
• Assisted by: Rachel Bryant Davies (Editor), Erin Johnson-Williams (Editor), Lucy Noakes (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.03.2024
• EAN: 9781350200340
• ISBN: 978-1-350-20034-0
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 232 mm x 22 mm
• Series: New Directions in Social and C; New Directions in Social and Cultural History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Historiography, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Historiography, Archiving, preservation and digitization