Cultural Heritage and the Literary Archive (eBook, PDF)

Objects, Institutions, and Practices between the Analogue and the Digital
Redaktion: Sommer, Tim

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Produktbeschreibung

Modern literary archives play a key role in how authors' lives and works get canonized and consecrated as cultural heritage. This interdisciplinary volume combines literary studies, book history, textual criticism, heritage studies, archival theory, and the digital humanities to examine the past, present, and future of literary archiving

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040119679
• Artikelnr.: 72277415

Autorenporträt

Tim Sommer is Lecturer in English Literature and Culture at the University of Passau, Germany. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University, an Academic Visitor at the University of Cambridge, a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Oxford. At the University of Heidelberg, he was principal investigator on the project "Modern Literary Manuscripts as Cultural Heritage: Valuation, Archivization, Digitization" (2020-2021). His research on literary authorship, cultural heritage, and archival institutions has appeared in Romanticism, Book History, the Journal of World Literature, and the Harvard Library Bulletin, among other venues. His monograph Carlyle, Emerson and the Transatlantic Uses of Authority: Literature, Print, Performance was published in 2021.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Literature, Heritage, Archive
Tim Sommer
Part I: Historical Origins
1. "This Warm Scribe, My [Profitable] Hand": Agency and the Acquisition of
Literary Archives
Christopher Fletcher
2. British Romantic Poetry and/as Cultural Heritage: Lord Byron, Percy
Bysshe Shelley, Mary Robinson
Tim Sommer
3. Women Writers and Publisher Archives: Jane Austen and Beyond
Michelle Levy
Part II: Institutional Collecting
4. The Collections Cycle of the Modernist Archive Market
Amy Hildreth Chen
5. "Operation Manuscript": A National Institutional Response to Collecting
Contemporary Literary Heritage
Jamie Andrews
6. Manuscript in the Writer's House Museum
Nicola J. Watson
Part III: Authors and Archives
7. Archival Anxieties: On Memory and Forgetfulness
Stephen Enniss
8. Archives as Texts and the Stories They Tell
Jennifer Douglas
9. Writers' Libraries and Vestigial Notes as Cultural Heritage: Minding the
Gaps in the Material Record
Dirk Van Hulle
Part IV: Digital Archives, Digital Heritage
10. Capturing, Collaborating, and Curating: A Community-Led Approach to
Contemporary Born-Digital Literary Archives
Justine Mann
11. Invisible Touches: The Challenge of the Hidden Revolution in Bookmaking
for Publishers' Archives
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Index