Women, Performance and the Material of Memory The Archival Tourist, 1780-1915 /

• Main Author: Engel, Laura (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Literature-History and criticism.; Social history.; Sociology.; Historiography.; Literary History.; Social History.; Gender Studies.; Memory Studies.

This book proposes that the performance of archival research is related to the experience of tourism, where an individual immerses herself in a foreign environment, relating to and analyzing visual and sensory materials through embodiment and enactment. Each chapter highlights a particular set of ta...