Women, Performance and the Material of Memory

The Archival Tourist, 1780–1915

Laura Engel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

169 Seiten

2019 | 1st ed. 2019
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-58931-6 (ISBN)

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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 tangible objects including: pocket diaries, portraits, drawings, magic lanterns, silhouettes, waxworks, and photographs in relation to actresses, authors, and artists such as: Elizabeth Inchbald, Sally Siddons, Marguerite Gardiner the Countess of Blessington, Isabella Beetham, Jane Read, Madame Tussaud, and Amelia M. Watson. Ultimately, operating as an archival tourist in my analyses, I offer strategies for thinking about the presence of women artists in the archives through methodologies that seek to connect materials from the past with our representations of them in the present.

Laura Engel is a Professor in the English Department at Duquesne University, where she specializes in eighteenth-century British literature and theater. She is the author of Austen, Actresses, and Accessories: Much Ado about Muffs (Palgrave Pivot, 2015), Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies for Image Making (2011), and co-editor with Elaine McGirr of Stage Mothers: Women, Work, and the Theater, 1660-1830 (2014).

1. Introduction: The Archival Tourist.- 2. Elizabeth Inchbald's Pocket Diaries.- 3. Sir Thomas Lawrence's Portraits of the Siddons Sisters.- 4. The Countess of Blessington and Magic Lanterns.- 5. Women Artists, Silhouettes, and Waxworks.- 6. Amelia M. Watson's Photographs.- 7. Epilogue: The Sisi Experience.

Erscheinungsdatum	25.01.2019
Zusatzinfo	12 Illustrations, color; 12 Illustrations, black and white; XVI, 169 p. 24 illus., 12 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Wirtschaft
Schlagworte	archive theory • Elizabeth Inchbald • material culture • Performance theory • Thomas Lawrence • tourism theory • Women and tourism
ISBN-10	1-137-58931-0 / 1137589310
ISBN-13	978-1-137-58931-6 / 9781137589316
Zustand	Neuware