Intersectional Encounters in the Nineteenth-Century Archive

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?<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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.