Allure of the Archives

Name: Allure of the Archives
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ISBN: 9780300176735

ISBN-10: 0300176732

ISBN-13: 9780300176735

Edition: 2013

Authors: Arlette Farge, Natalie Zemon Davis, Thomas Scott-Railton

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Arlette Farge’s Le gout de l’archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge was struck by the extraordinarily intimate portrayal they provided of the lives of the poor in pre-Revolutionary France, especially women. She was seduced by the sensuality of old manuscripts and by the revelatory power of voices otherwise lost. In The Allure of the Archives, she conveys the exhilaration of uncovering hidden secrets and the thrill of venturing into previously unknown dimensions of the past. Originally published in 1989, Farge’s classic work communicates the tactile,…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 9/24/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 150
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.27" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Foreword



Traces by the Thousands


One Morning in the Library of the Arsenal


On the Front Door


Paths and Presences


The Watchful City


The People Through Words


Her Presence


Conflict


She Has Just Arrived


Gathering and Handling the Documents


"Combing Through the Archives,"


The Process of Connection and Contrast


Gathering


Traps and Temptations


Captured Speech


From the Event to History


Fragments of Ethics


The Accidental and the Singular, the Unique and the Collective


Meaning and Truthfulness


Understanding Certain Forms of Popular Expression


The Inventory Room Is Sepulchral


Writing


Notes


Translator's Notes