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The allure of the archives
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Uniform Title
Goût de l'archive. English
Title
The allure of the archives / Arlette Farge ; translated by Thomas Scott-Railton ; foreword by Natalie Zemon Davis.
ISBN
0300180217
1299841317
9780300180213
9781299841314
0300176732
0300198930
9780300176735
9780300198935
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Copyright Notice Date
©2013
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 131 pages).
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Notes
Originally published as Le Goût de l'archive. Editions du Seuil, 1989. Collection La Librairie du XXIe siècle sous la direction de Maurice Olender.
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
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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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EBSCOhost eBook collection, Yale University Press.
Other formats
Print version: Farge, Arlette. Goût de l'archive. English. Allure of the archives. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 07, 2019
Series
The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Foreword / by Natalie Zemon Davis
Traces by the thousands
On the front door
Paths and presences
She has just arrived
Gathering and handling the documents
Captured speech
The inventory room is sepulchral
Writing
Notes
Notes on the translation.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Archives.
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