Cultural Heritage and the Literary Archive: Objects, Institutions, and Practices between the Analogue and the Digital (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

By: Tim Sommer

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Synopsis: 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. Featuring contributions from leading international scholars and archive professionals, the book explores the objects, practices, and institutions that have been at the heart of the modern archival landscape since its emergence in the nineteenth century. Covering a wide range of questions, the volume reconstructs how literary manuscripts turned into secular relics and analyzes the impact that the rise of the archive has had on the scholarly study and public perception of literature as cultural heritage. Individual chapters range from historical accounts of the Romantic origins of manuscript worship to critical discussions of the archiving of contemporary writers’ born-digital material.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 222 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040119716
Related ISBNs:: 9781040119679, 9781032558271, 9781003432470
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 09/30/24
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Tim Sommer
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Tim Sommer