The Allure of the Archives
(Part of the The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Series)
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Arlette Farge's Le Go t de l'archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge was struck by the extraordinarily 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 The...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0300198930
ISBN13:9780300198935
Release Date:February 2015
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:152 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.1" x 5.1" x 8.0"
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