Intersectional Encounters In The Nineteenth-Century Archive: New Essays On Power And Discourse (New Directions In Social And Cultural History)

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.

• | Author: Rachel Bryant Davies|Erin Johnson-Williams
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Sep 08, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 328 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 1350200336
• | ISBN-13: 9781350200333