Intersectional Encounters in the Nineteenth-Century Archive New Essays on Power and Discourse
Synopsis
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.Book details
- Series:
- New Directions in Social and Cultural History
- Author:
- Rachel Bryant Davies and Erin Johnson-Williams
- ISBN:
- 9781350200364
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781350200333
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- Yes
- Date of addition:
- 2022-08-10
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2023
- Copyright by:
- Rachel Bryant Davies and Erin Johnson-Williams
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction