Isbn: 9781350200333 - intersectional encounters in the nineteenth-century archive: new essays on power and discourse (new directions in social and cultural history) (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 309 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.