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The allure of the archives
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Goût de l'archive. English
Title
The allure of the archives / Arlette Farge ; translated by Thomas Scott-Railton ; foreword by Natalie Zemon Davis.
ISBN
9780300180213 (ebook) :
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Notes
Translated from the French.
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Summary
Arlette Farge's 'Le Goût de l'archive' is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combining through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge was struck by the extraordinary 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 this book, she conveys the exhilaration of uncovering hidden secrets and the thrill of venturing into previously unknown dimensions of the past.
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Yale scholarship online.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 05, 2016
Series
The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
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