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

Intersectional Encounters in the Nineteenth-Century Archive: New Essays on Power and Discourse
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
8 September 2022
Pages
328
ISBN
9781350200333

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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