Violence in the Early Modern Archive
Inclusive Methodologies
Violence in the Early Modern Archive
Inclusive Methodologies
Description
What are the gaps in the early modern archive? How do gender, sexuality and racialisation determine archival absence and presence? Who has access to the early modern archive? Addressing these questions, this collection uses established historical methods and literary analysis to explore the complexity of the archive in early modern research.
Essays highlight archival practice across a range of media including documentary, object, digital and performance. Individual life history is situated as both a tool and a limitation for creating archival records through readings of the rope dancer, Juda Hudson and the figure of the 'Dark Lady' in Shakespeare's sonnets. Case studies of specific objects including a musical organ, photographs of a Victorian Shakespearean tableaux in The Royal Collection and two early modern document-images from the South Carolinian archives provide a route into the colonial and contextual weight which such objects carry. These examples draw out the nuance of what is absent and present in the early modern archive. The volume concludes by considering consent in archival exchanges and the possibility of ethical archival practice in early modern research.
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Table of Contents
Section I: Absence and Presence: Gender, Performance and Violence in the Archive
1. Jumping Through Hoops: Recovering Diverse Itinerant Performers of Early Modern East Anglia
Mel Harrison (King's College London, UK)
2. Re-visiting Black Luce: A Reflection on Creative and Archival Practice
Duncan Salkeld (Visiting Professor, University of Roehampton, UK) and Caroline Randall Williams (Vanderbilt University, TN, USA)
3. Cataloguing Violence: Descriptions of Criminal Acts in Early Modern Legal Records and Modern Catalogues
Daniel F Gosling (The National Archives, UK)
Section II: Memory, Community and Power: Tracing Performance Communities of the Past
4. Organ Lessons: Using Feminist and Race Studies Methodologies to Tell the Story of Lost Instruments Erin Julian (University of Roehampton, UK)
5. Tableau Vivants and Stillness as Performance Archive
Sally Barnden (Swansea University)
6. "Reparative Description”: Reflexive Digital Archives and Community Memory Projects
Jen Boyle (Coastal Carolina University, SC, USA)
Section III: Never Neutral: Diverse Archive Creation, Ethics, and Legacies
7. Digital Diversity: Switching the Lens in Systems of Search
Oliver Lewis (University of Roehampton, UK)
8. Archiving the Collective: upstart crow and the Meanings of Feminist Performance
Allison Machlis Meyer (Seattle University, WA, USA)
9. Consent and the Inert Archive, or, What Did You Say This Was For Again?
Hailey Bachrach (University of Roehampton, UK)
Afterword
10. Archival Silence and Abundance: The Ethics of Generative AI and Archiving as Knowledge Practices Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University, USA)
Product details
| Published | 24 Jun 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350533837 |
| Imprint | The Arden Shakespeare |
| Illustrations | 12 bw illus |
| Series | Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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