Introduction: Reading Silence in the Long Nineteenth-Century Women’s Life Writing Archive

Introduction: Reading Silence in the Long Nineteenth-Century Women’s Life Writing Archive

This introduction reflects on the nineteenth-century women’s life writing archive as a concept as well as a space. Is the long nineteenth-century women’s life writing archive a unique entity that stands apart from the wider archive? If so, how do we interpret its borders? How can we read silences, o...

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Main Author: Alexis Wolf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2018-12-01
Series:19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Subjects:
Women, Archives, Nineteenth Century, Digital Humanities, Manuscripts, Romantic, Victorian, Modern
Online Access:https://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/841
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spelling doaj-67b011dc61a64a71a4601c4c6f8dbd8b2021-06-02T05:59:45ZengOpen Library of Humanities19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century1755-15602018-12-012710.16995/ntn.841743Introduction: Reading Silence in the Long Nineteenth-Century Women’s Life Writing ArchiveAlexis Wolf0Birkbeck, University of LondonThis introduction reflects on the nineteenth-century women’s life writing archive as a concept as well as a space. Is the long nineteenth-century women’s life writing archive a unique entity that stands apart from the wider archive? If so, how do we interpret its borders? How can we read silences, omissions, and tactical interventions within an ethical framework? What possibilities and limitations arise from the growing mediation of technology between researchers and the archive? This introduction suggests that archives, which are often identified as sites of displacement for women’s voices, can also be read as sites of agency. It proposes that creative and interdisciplinary approaches for reading the origins, uses, and consequences of silences in the nineteenth-century women’s life writing archive are essential for understanding the ways that the past has been mediated and inscribed.https://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/841Women, Archives, Nineteenth Century, Digital Humanities, Manuscripts, Romantic, Victorian, Modern
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Introduction: Reading Silence in the Long Nineteenth-Century Women’s Life Writing Archive
19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Women, Archives, Nineteenth Century, Digital Humanities, Manuscripts, Romantic, Victorian, Modern
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description This introduction reflects on the nineteenth-century women’s life writing archive as a concept as well as a space. Is the long nineteenth-century women’s life writing archive a unique entity that stands apart from the wider archive? If so, how do we interpret its borders? How can we read silences, omissions, and tactical interventions within an ethical framework? What possibilities and limitations arise from the growing mediation of technology between researchers and the archive? This introduction suggests that archives, which are often identified as sites of displacement for women’s voices, can also be read as sites of agency. It proposes that creative and interdisciplinary approaches for reading the origins, uses, and consequences of silences in the nineteenth-century women’s life writing archive are essential for understanding the ways that the past has been mediated and inscribed.
topic Women, Archives, Nineteenth Century, Digital Humanities, Manuscripts, Romantic, Victorian, Modern
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